All Nassau William Senior Quotes
- To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of… Abstain
- But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect… Been
- With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their… All
- We propose in the following Treatise to give an outline of the Science which treats of the Nature, the Production, and the Distribution of Wealth.… Distribution
- The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out… Clearly
- One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose… Admission
- The business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but… Actual
- The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent;… All
- Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be… Denotes
- Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and… Accelerate
- That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth. Articles
- That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of… Increased
- The confounding Political Economy with the Sciences and Arts to which it is subservient, has been one of the principal obstacles to its improvement. Arts
- The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general… Branch