Category - Adam Smith

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Adam Smith

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

– Adam Smith

Adam Smith

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, is the one that must rule all observation.

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Adam Smith

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

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Adam Smith

No complaint… is more common than that of a scarcity of money.

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Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

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Adam Smith

It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country.

– Adam Smith

Adam Smith

I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.

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Adam Smith

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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Adam Smith

Defense is superior to opulence.

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Adam Smith

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 it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.

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Adam Smith

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

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Adam Smith

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

– Adam Smith

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