They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. “The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor.It comes from an order of men … who have generally an interest to deceive and even oppress the public.” ~ Adam Smith “The interest of is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public … The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order … ought never to be adopted, till after having been long and carefully examined … with the most suspicious attention.“All money is a matter of belief.” ~ Adam Smith.“To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.” ~ Adam Smith.“The rate of profit… is naturally low in rich and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin.” ~ Adam Smith.“The real price of everything, what everything really costs to the man who wants to acquire it, is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” ~ Adam Smith.“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.” ~ Adam Smith.“The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.” ~ Adam Smith.“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.” ~ Adam Smith.“Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.” ~ Adam Smith.“It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.” ~ Adam Smith.“There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” ~ Adam Smith.“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this – no dog exchanges bones with another.” ~ Adam Smith.“The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or, at least, to neglect persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.” ~ Adam Smith.“Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good.” ~ Adam Smith.I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.” ~ Adam Smith “By pursuing his own interest (the individual) frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.” ~ Adam Smith.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, and for the defense of those who have property against those who have none.” ~ Adam Smith Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern. Most government is by the rich for the rich. “A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.” ~ Adam Smith “The first thing you have to know is yourself.“A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of its people.” ~ Adam Smith.“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.” ~ Adam Smith.“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” ~ Adam Smith.
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