Adam Smith Quotations | Page 2

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The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

Man, an animal that makes bargains.

The game women play is men.

As soon as government management begins it upsets the natural equilibrium of industrial relations, and each interference only requires further bureaucratic control until the end is the tyranny of the totalitarian state.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity:...

Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods.

The ancient Egyptians had a superstitious antipathy to the sea; a superstition nearly of the same kind prevails among the Indians; and the Chinese have never excelled in foreign commerce.

The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of the richest subjects of Europe.

The proprietor of stock is necessarily a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country.