Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Adam Smith– 17 July 1790) was a Scottish moral philosopher, pioneer of political economy, and a key figure in the Scottish Enlightenment...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth5 June 1723
no-respect multitudes
We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.
money labour-movement labor-day
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
invisible-hand kingdoms economic
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
benefits unjust should
It is unjust that the whole of society should contribute towards an expence of which the benefit is confined to a part of the society.
doubt gold would-be
It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.
generations earth absurd
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
genius half different
By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound
kings fighting mind
In ease of body, peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level and the beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
ambition common beautiful-mind
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.
get-money affair
The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
technology blood robots
The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.
ambition independent circles
Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you.
patriotic government libertarian
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
money reality scarcity
No complaint... is more common than that of a scarcity of money.