71 ordspråk av Adam Smith
Adam Smith
Adam Smith föddes den June 5th 1723 och dog den 17 July 1790 - Scottish economist
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 Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. |
| Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another. |
| Mankind are animals that makes bargains, no other animal does this. |
| No complaint ... is more common than that of a scarcity of money. |
| No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable |
| On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. |
| On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity. |
| People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. |
| Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any Whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God |
| 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. |
| Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition. |
| Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes. |
| That was probably our best game of the year. |
| The contentious matter of whether or not to begin drilling in Alaska has no place in a bill that funds the Department of Defense. The needs of our troops serving in combat should never be subject to such cynical politics. |
| The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex. |
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