When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
“Every step which leads from capitalism toward planning is necessarily a step nearer to absolutism and dictatorship.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm very 'nothing-bothers-me,' laissez faire. Everything works for me. — Princess Nokia Copy Share Image
My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. — Benjamin Tucker Copy Share Image
“The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.” — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism. — Henry George Copy Share Image
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
“Before laissez-faire there was wu wei. “Practise not doing and everything will fall into place,” says the Tao Te Ching, Taoism’s primer.” — Gordon G. Chang Copy Share Image
In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“Global laissez-faire is not a conspiracy of corporate America. It is a tragedy - one of several that have occurred in the… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I'm pretty earthy; I nursed forever because I liked it and my kids liked it, but at the same time I'm very… — Ana Gasteyer Copy Share Image
I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
“Private property is redundant. "Public property" is an oxymoron. All legit property is private. If property isn't private it's stolen.” — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image
“Beautiful, seamless upgrade from Twitter today, making functionality smoother and cooler. We didn't have to lobby, didn't have to beg, didn't have… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Whats the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids heads? Taking someone elses girl, which is… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of… — Rod Dreher Copy Share Image
“There is no difference between the principles, policies and practical results of socialism—and those of any historical or prehistorical tyranny. Socialism is… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“What is peculiar and novel to our age is that the principal goal of politics in every advanced society is not, strictly… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system… — Vince Cable Copy Share Image
“The old laissez faire failed because it was based on erroneous premises regarding human behavior. As a theory it failed because it… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“The traditional, correct pre-Marxist view on exploitation was that of radical laissez-faire liberalism as espoused by, for instance, Charles Comte and Charles… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe Copy Share Image
“In neo-classical economic theory, it is claimed without evidence that people are basically self-seeking, that they want above all the satisfaction of… — Carne Ross Copy Share Image
“It is often sadly remarked that the bad economists present their errors to the public better than the good economists present their… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Monopoly is a market, or part of a market, reserved to the exclusive possession of one or more sellers by means of… — George Reisman Copy Share Image
Radicals, on the other hand, want to advance from the jungle of laissez-faire capitalism to a world worthy of the name of… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros Copy Share Image
With laissez-faire and price atomic, Ecology's Uneconomic, But with another kind of logic Economy's Unecologic. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I've learnt that from stand-up - you should always worry that it's going to go badly, otherwise you're too laissez faire. — Josh Widdicombe Copy Share Image
“Poverty can be brought about by law; it cannot be forbidden by law.” — Isabel Paterson Copy Share Image
“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A valid contract requires voluntary offer, acceptance, and consideration.” — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
