Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He is led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their… — 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
The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not… — Richard Hovey Copy Share Image
“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
“It appears, accordingly, from the experience of all ages and nations, I believe, that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in… — 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
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
We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and… — Jason Brennan Copy Share Image
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment with which it… — 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
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The man of system is apt to be very wise in his own conceit. In the great chess board of human society,… — 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
Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Some time ago a little-known Scottish philosopher wrote a book on what makes nations succeed and what makes them fail. The Wealth… — George Akerlof Copy Share Image
The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
“ An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations , which Smith published in 1776, is the most… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Beyond infrastructure, the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European-style universal entitlements but a firm safety net, meaning… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Survival of the fittest" in the commonly used animal sense is not a theory or principle for a "time-binding" being. This theory… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“If you actually read The Wealth of Nations, you’d know that’s what capitalism is all about. Competition on a level playing field.… — Irving Belateche Copy Share Image
“In the eighteenth century, the Scottish Enlightenment focused attention on Glasgow and Edinburgh as centres of intellectual activity. The Scottish Enlightenment was… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Most people in the Great Britain of (Adam) Smith's day lived in what most of us would regard as poverty. Hundreds of… — Jerry Z. Muller Copy Share Image
“Adam Smith FRSE (baptised June 5, 1723 O.S. / June 16 N.S. – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher and… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
There is not a line in 'The Wealth of Nations' that is not still applicable to this day. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The Wealth of Nations may not be an original book, but it is unquestionably a masterpiece. — Robert Heilbroner Copy Share Image
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