Adam Smith Quote by Sean Masaki Flynn

“A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most…

— Bruce Watson

“Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations was in large part a critique of imperialism. We often associate opposition to imperialism with Marxism and the Left,…

— Jason Brennan

“Instead, contracts were awarded to American consultancies like Bearing Point, or Adam Smith from the UK, to bring in their own people to run…

— Christina Lamb

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

On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Like…

— Michael Lind

Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral…

— Anonymous

“The American Works Progress (later Projects) Administration, founded in 1935 to provide jobs for “employable workers” during the Great Depression, established the Mathematical Tables…

— Jack Lynch

“In America, too, the reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith’s capitalist manifesto, The…

— Howard Zinn

“They failed to appreciate how the network would funnel the energies of the people into a centrally administered, tightly monitored information system organized to…

— Nicholas Carr

Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in…

— Francois Quesnay

Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.

— P. J. O'Rourke

We're supposed to worship Adam Smith but you're not supposed to read him. That's too dangerous.

— Noam Chomsky