Adam Smith Quotes

“The value of money is in proportion to the quantity of the necessaries of life which it will purchase.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:life money

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

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:happiness society misery

“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

topic:happiness interest

“Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent?”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

topic:freedom independence

“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”

― Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments

topic:self power

“It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:fear

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects, too, are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention, in finding out...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:understanding work difficulty

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

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:good

“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government money people

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is, in reality, instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government politics

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