People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“A nation is not made welthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
An instructed and intelligent people are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that… — 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
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals would not only load… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
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
Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Ask any rich man of common prudence to which of the two sorts of people he has lent the greater part of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers to pretend to watch over the economy of private people,… — 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
The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be… — 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… — 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
