Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Quotes from ‘The Wealth of Nations’ by Adam Smith | 1776 | Classical economics | “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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Individual ambition serves the Common Good.

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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production.

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Problems worthy of attacks, prove their worth by hitting back.

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The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

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The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

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Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

[Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith @Wealth_Quote]

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

[Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith @Wealth_Quote]

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

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The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another..

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

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All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.

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Individual ambition serves the Common Good.

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

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The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities.

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In general, if any branch of trade, or any division of labour, be advantageous to the public, the freer and more general the competition, it will always be the more so.

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Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

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

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Man, an animal that makes bargains.