"Wherever there is great property there is great……" — Adam Smith
"Wherever there is great property there is great inequality. For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions."
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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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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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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
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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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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
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Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next…
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The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own…
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The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve…
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state…
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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control…
— Joan Didion
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It's a cultural disability in America that we worship pleasure, leisure, and affluence. I think the church is doubly damned…
— Rich Mullins
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From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to…
— Henri Lefebvre
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I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.
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