"Virtue is more to be feared than vice,……" — Adam Smith
"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."
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54 Quotes by Adam Smith
Adam Smith has 54 quotes on this site.
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The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of…
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The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the…
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but…
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and…
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the…
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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by…
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Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.
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As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love…
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found…
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All money is a matter of belief.
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More Conscience Quotes
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If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he…
— Francis of Assisi
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I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this…
— David Attenborough
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
— Richard Bach
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Modesty is the conscience of the body.
— Honore de Balzac
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Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.
— Honore de Balzac
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become…
— Bono
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In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
— Bono
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