Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was good fun being a pop singer. I had quite a laissez-faire attitude towards it which I think is why it… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished. — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
“Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.” — George will Copy Share Image
My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing. — Charlie Trotter Copy Share Image
I am opposed to all forms of control. I am for an absolute, laissez-faire, free, unregulated economy. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method. — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Thus, the weight of my criticism is directed against the inadequacy of the theoretical foundations of the laissez-faire doctrine upon which I… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“That is the flip side, you see, to laissez-faire parenting. It succeeds or not, throughout the animal kingdom as it does with… — Cynthia Rogers Parks Copy Share Image
Here we are, then, once more back at the old doctrine - Laissez faire. Let us translate it into blunt English, and… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
“Socialism is not really an option in the material world. There can be no collective ownership of anything materially scarce. One or… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“The government enforces a monopoly over the production and distribution of its alleged 'services' and brings violence to bear against would-be competitors.… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the… — George Soros Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play -… — Nouriel Roubini Copy Share Image
“Challenging our sacred beliefs is both frightening and difficult, but we must do it. It is wrong to live in a laissez… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
“It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those… — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
“We need a laissez faire that will hold fast to the ends of autonomy and freedom of choice; one that will begin… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
“Too often we're told that advocates of new policies are putting values of fairness above practical concerns, while supporters of laissez-faire are… — Heather Boushey Copy Share Image
“A great deal of the talk about laissez faire [in the nineteenth century] must be discounted, or at least put into its… — Vito Tanzi Copy Share Image
“As long as government has the power to regulate business, business will control government by funding the candidate that legislates in their… — Mary J. Ruwart Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
“It is easy to see, however,―as has been indicated more than once by anarchist writers, and lately by the French professor, V.… — Pyotr Kropotkin Copy Share Image
So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I'm fine with whatever comes my way, and whatever doesn't come my way I'm fine with too. I have a very laissez-faire… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose… — Nia Vardalos Copy Share Image
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Just as the left has to be more willing to question 'Government knows best,' the right has to rethink its laissez-faire attitude… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I've got some repenting to do. I doubt, however, that those who have wedded Christianity with laissez-faire capitalism will see things this… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the… — Francois Quesnay Copy Share Image
“In its study of the future of work, the laissez-faire Baker Institute admitted it had been ‘unable to find any solutions based… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image