Admire Quote by Adam Smith

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

It is in the middle classes of society that all the finest feeling, and the most amiable propensities of our nature do principally nourish…

— Charles Caleb Colton

people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly…

— John Hancock

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle…

— Joseph Addison

Great merit or great failings will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you…

— Lord Chesterfield

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

— Barbara Mertz

One of the most melancholy consequences of this habit of deferring to other nations, and to other systems, is the fact that it causes…

— James F. Cooper

Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Fundamental disposition towards others, assuming the character either of Envy or of Sympathy, is the point at which the moral virtues and vices of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of…

— Zicheng Hong

“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— David Cay Johnston