« All All Quotes · Adam Smith's Page
All Quotes by Adam Smith
- The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking,…
- Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but…
- As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never…
- The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of…
- All money is a matter of belief.
- Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as…
- Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable…
- Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach…
- Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.
- The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail,…
- Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.
- Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the…
More All Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Whenever my pocket money fall short. I start to think my life sucks. Then I think about all those out there who… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't be selfish and tell me why you're unfollowing me so I can retweet it for the rest and we all can… — Nikhil Saluja
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman