Adam Smith Quotes, Earth Quotes, Generations Quotes

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Earth Quotes , Generations Quotes

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Equality Quotes

The rate of profit... is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Country Quotes , Ruins Quotes

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Invisible Hand Quotes

Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own maintenance, and of his masters profits. The labour of a menial servant, on the contrary, adds to the value of nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Add Quotes , Maintenance Quotes

To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Sacrifice Quotes , Law Quotes

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Perfection Quotes

The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Desire Quotes , Principles Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Watches Quotes

When we have read a book or poem so often that we can no longer find any amusement in reading it by ourselves, we can still take pleasure in reading it to a companion. To him it has all the graces of novelty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Invisible Hand Quotes , Done Quotes

The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Secret Quotes

Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Taxation Quotes , Sugar Quotes

What can be added to the happiness of the man who is in health, who is out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Life Quotes , Motivational Quotes

When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Country Quotes , Luxury Quotes

Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he is a subject to government, indeed, but that, as he has some property, he cannot himself be the property of a master.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Government Quotes , Liberty Quotes

Nothing but the most exemplary morals can give dignity to a man of small fortune.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Giving Quotes

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Violence Quotes , Excited Quotes

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Science Quotes , Flames Quotes

The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order ... ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined ... with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men ... who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Men Quotes , Order Quotes