Faire Quotes
53 Faire quotes by 39 unique authors
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A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
— Alain Ducasse
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The authority and influence of France on the world scene in the 21st century will not depend solely on its modernity and cohesion, nor even…
— Jacques Chirac
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To check centralization and usurping of power ... we require a new laissez-faire. The old laissez-faire was founded upon a misapprehension of human nature, an…
— Russell Kirk
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...whatever the self-righteous excesses of the environmentalist left, it is impossible to be true to traditional conservative values (to say nothing of the Christian faith…
— Rod Dreher
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Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of…
— Ludwig von Mises
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No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To…
— Edmund Spenser
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It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.
— John Heywood
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C'este donc par l'étude des mathématiques, et seulement par elle, que l'on peut se faire une idée juste et approfondie de ce que c'est qu'une…
— Auguste Comte
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Government control of the economy, no matter in whose behalf, has been the source of all the evils in our industrial society -- and the…
— Ayn Rand
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Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging…
— Francois Quesnay
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Although I have made a fortune in the financial markets, I now fear that the untrammeled intensification of laissez-faire capitalism and the spread of market…
— George Soros
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If the Treasury were to fill old bottles with bank-notes, bury them at suitable depths in disused coal-mines which are then filled up to the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.
— William Howard Taft
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Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.
— Henry George
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I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose.…
— Vince Cable
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Why should I worry, why should I care? And even when I cross that line, I got street savoire faire.
— Billy Joel
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L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor…
— Blaise Pascal
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Broadly speaking, the Southern and Western desert and mountain states will vote for the candidate who endorses an aggressive military, a role for religion in…
— Steven Pinker
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Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Ash should take the ladies, because he's charming." Ash looked pleased. Jared raised his eyebrows. "Are you saying that I'm not a charmer?" "You are…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Pour faire de l'histoire, il faut savoir compter.
— Georges Lefebvre
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If one rejects laissez faire on account of mans fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform.…
— George Soros
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It is not an accident that developing countries - virtually the whole of East Asia, for example - view the role of the state in…
— Martin Jacques
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