The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The value of any commodity, therefore, to the person who possesses it, and who means not to use or consume it himself,… — 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
The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We are delighted to find a person who values us as we value ourselves, and distinguishes us from the rest of mankind,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord,… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of… — 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
