A Quote by Charlie Trotter

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

Charlie Trotter

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Charlie Trotter
American - Celebrity
September 8, 1959 - November 5, 2013

My parents couldn't be looser. It was the ultimate laissez faire upbringing.

Charlie Trotter

There was nothing natural about laissez-faire; free markets could never have come into being merely by allowing things to take their course. Just as cotton manufactures were created by the help of protective tariffs, export bounties, and indirect wage subsidies, laissez-faire was enforced by the state.

Karl Polanyi

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 exultation of individuality (in private character often a virtue) to the condition of a political dogma, which destroyed the spirit of community and reduced men to so many equipollent atoms of humanity, without sense of brotherhood or purpose.

Russell Kirk

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 freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.

Francois Quesnay

Laissez-faire capitalism, or anarchocapitalism, is simply the economic form of the libertarian ethic. Laissez-faire capitalism encompasses the notion that men should exchange goods and services, without regulation, solely on the basis of value for value. It recognizes charity and communal enterprises as voluntary versions of this same ethic. Such a system would be straight barter, except for the widely felt need for a division of labor in which men, voluntarily, accept value tokens such as cash and credit. Economically, this system is anarchy, and proudly so.

Karl Hess

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

George Soros

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

Kenneth E. Boulding

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

Henry George

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

Robert Kuttner

My god has always been a laissez-faire deity, giving you the initial goods and sending you on to make your way.

Jane Hamilton

[I am against] the Treaty of Rome which entrenches laissez faire as its philosophy and chooses bureaucracy as its administrative method.

Tony Benn

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

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.