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De Gaulle on the Market

« The market, Peyrefitte, is good.

It forces people to stretch themselves, it gives a bonus to the best, it encourages you to surpass others and to surpass yourself.

But, at the same time, it creates injustices, it establishes monopolies, it favours cheaters.

So don’t be blind to the market. You should not imagine that it will solve every problem on its own.

The market is not above the nation and the state. It is the nation, it is the state which must oversee the market. »

— DE GAULLE
[quoted by Alain Peyrefitte in C’était de Gaulle, Éditions Fayard, 1994, p. 523]
Published at 3:15 pm on Thursday 16 November 2023. Categories: Errant Thoughts Quotations Tags: , , .
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