Character Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Market forces have no intrinsically moral direction, which is why, before he wrote The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote The Theory of Moral…

— Arianna Huffington

Ask me not, 'Are you rightwing,' but ask me 'Are you a committed believer in individual freedom, the values of the enlightenment?' Then, yeah,…

— Niall Ferguson

The moral sentiments that constrain economic life also promote it.

— Ted Malloch

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

— Bertrand Russell

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now…

— Lewis Mumford

We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and aesthetic values as we now…

— Lewis Mumford

A war not only arises, but derives its nature , from the political ideas, the moral sentiments, and the international relations obtaining at the…

— Ferdinand Foch

“This disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor…

— Adam Smith

“The theme of Smith’s first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, was the innate honesty of mankind. “How selfish soever man may be supposed,”…

— Steven D. Levitt