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Laissez Faire Capitalism Quotes

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy, Carpe Diem, Laissez Faire Capitalism
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.226, e-artnow

The main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat.

George Soros
Believe, Enemy, Laissez Faire Capitalism
"The Capitalist Threat" by George Soros, www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Henry George
Dream, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Noble
Henry George (1886). “Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth [and] the Remedy”

I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer the best opportunities for the development of the human spirit.

Rose Wilder Lane
Opportunity, Giving, Laissez Faire Capitalism

Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and, therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships.

Ayn Rand
Rights, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Recognition
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.35, Penguin

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished.

Nicolas Sarkozy
Powerful, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Knows
"Europe's Conservatives Sour On the Free Market" by Bruce Crumley, content.time.com. September 26, 2008.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

George Soros
Perfection, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Doe
"The Capitalist Threat". www.theatlantic.com. February 1997.

My parents couldnt be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

Charlie Trotter
Parent, Laissez Faire Capitalism, Ultimate

The Romanticists predominantly, were enemies of capitalism, which they regarded as a prosaic, materialistic, “petty bourgeois” system — never realizing that it was the only system that could make freedom, individuality and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Ayn Rand
Practice, Individuality, Laissez Faire Capitalism
"Ayn Rand Reader".

Unrestricted laissez faire capitalism allocates resources in a most efficient way to satisfy human wants without regard to the rationality or morality of those desires.

Jerry Pournelle
Political, Desire, Laissez Faire Capitalism

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