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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

Social philosopher, father of modern political economy. Published twice. Graduate from UoG. Go GUSA! Joined April 2012
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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

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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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

#100thingsilove Invisible hands.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

#Fear ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to #independency.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

#Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of #government.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

That a #jointstockcompany should be able to carry on successfully any branch of #foreigntrade seems contrary to all experience.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

@DeliciousJoe Not me. The disposition to admire and worship the rich is the most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

@MarketUrbanism @ChrisCQuinn Unsatisfying. A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

The difference between a philosopher and a common street porter seems to arise not so much from nature as from habit, custom, and #education

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

– but it is sometimes otherwise when in favour of the masters. #mayday #1mai #mayday2012

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

– When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable –

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters –

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

The education of the common people requires the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune. #edchat

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

@libertarianism Perhaps. But no society can be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. #MayDay #1Mai #1erMai

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

Masters sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the #wages of #labour even below their actual rate. #MayDay #1Mai #1erMai

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

The workmen are disposed to combine in order to raise, the masters in order to lower the wages of labour. #MayDay #1Mai #1erMai

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

– But whoever imagines that masters rarely combine is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. #MayDay #1Mai #1erMai

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

We rarely hear of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of the workman – #MayDay #1Mai #1erMai

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

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.

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Adam Smith @_SmithAdam

14 years ago

The authority of riches is perhaps greatest in the rudest age of society which admits of any considerable inequality of fortune. #Taxes

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