Adam Smith Quotes
A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.Get Image
All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.Get Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.Get Image
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.Get Image
On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. (Powers of Mind, 1975)Get Image
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