Adam Smith Quotes

“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

“The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:government wealth

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in view. But the study of his own...”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:society

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:work

“After all that has been said of the levity and inconstancy of human nature, it appears evidently from experience, that man is, of all sorts of luggage, the most difficult to be transported.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:man

“The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy to invade his possessions.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:poverty wealth

“No complaint, however, is more common than that of a scarcity of money.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:poverty money

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:science people

“It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:desire money

“Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

topic:money

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