In raising the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates in the same manner as simple interest does in the accumulation… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every tax, however, is to the person who pays it a badge, not of slavery but of liberty. It denotes that he… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters. When the regulation, therefore,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Thus the labour of a manufacture adds, generally, to the value of the materials which he works upon, that of his own… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations [that is, unions or colluding organizations] of masters, though frequently of those… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what manner it… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.” — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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