"Wherever there is great property, there is great…" — Adam Smith
"Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality."
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54 Quotes by Adam Smith
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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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Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.
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Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
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And I know this happens because I took economics, and I'd explain it to ya, but I flunked that course.…
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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