Adam Quote by Thomas Malthus

“Needless to say, this idea that the origin of prosperity is hard work and frugality was exhaustively formulated by Adam Smith in The Wealth…

— Axel Kaiser

“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

The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

“Most people in the Great Britain of (Adam) Smith's day lived in what most of us would regard as poverty. Hundreds of thousands were…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on…

— Allen W. Wood

Among civilized and thriving nations, on the contrary, though a great number of people do no labor at all, many of whom consume the…

— Adam Smith

Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy…

— Robert Heilbroner

We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

— William Godwin

“The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived their income…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Labour is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. And it really is the source -- next to nature, which supplies it…

— Friedrich Engels

We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Great Creator of All Things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a…

— John Tyler

Labour is not a commodity.

— Sharan Burrow