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- “The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.
- “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
- “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- “The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.” ― Adam Smith, The Money Game.
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- Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent. Adam Smith. Patriotic, Government, Libertarian.
- A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people. Adam Smith. People, Prosperity, Economics.
- 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 interest. Adam Smith.
- No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. Adam Smith. Happiness, Equality, Society.
- The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Adam Smith.
- Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. Adam Smith.
- Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. Adam Smith.
- All money is a matter of belief. Adam Smith.
Adam Smith (1723-1790) is commonly regarded as the first modern economist with the publication in 1776 of The Wealth of Nations. He wrote in a wide range of disciplines: moral philosophy, jurisprudence, rhetoric and literature, and the history of science. He was one of the leading figures in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Adam Smith Quotes — Adam Smith Institute. It is the great multiplication of the productions of all the different arts, in consequence of the division of labour, which occasions, in a well-governed society, that universal opulence which extends itself to the lowest ranks of the people. It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never ...
Smith's work helped to create the modern academic discipline of economics and provided one of the best-known intellectual rationales for free trade, capitalism, and libertarianism. Adam Smith is now depicted on the back of the Bank of England £20 note. Source: Wikipedia” ― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
