By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention. Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it. By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I, Livre IV
Variante: Mais le revenu annuel de toute société est toujours précisément égal à la valeur échangeable de tout le produit annuel de son industrie, ou plutôt c'est précisément la même chose que cette valeur échangeable. Par conséquent, puisque chaque individu tâche, le plus qu'il peut, 1° d'employer son capital à faire valoir l'industrie nationale, et - 2° de diriger cette industrie de manière à lui faire produire la plus grande valeur possible, chaque individu travaille nécessairement à rendre aussi grand que possible le revenu annuel de la société. A la vérité, son intention, en général, n'est pas en cela de servir l'intérêt public, et il ne sait même pas jusqu'à quel point il peut être utile à la société. En préférant le succès de l'industrie nationale à celui de l'industrie étrangère, il ne pense qu'à se donner personnellement une plus grande sûreté; et en dirigeant cette industrie de manière à ce que son produit ait le plus de valeur possible, il ne pense qu'à son propre gain; en cela, comme dans beaucoup d'autres cas, il est conduit par une main invisible à remplir une fin qui n'entre nullement dans ses intentions; et ce n'est pas toujours ce qu'il y a de plus mal pour la société, que cette fin n'entre pour rien dans ses intentions. Tout en ne cherchant que son intérêt personnel, il travaille souvent d'une manière bien plus efficace pour l'intérêt de la société, que s'il avait réellement pour but d'y travailler. Je n'ai jamais vu que ceux qui aspiraient, dans leurs entreprises de commerce, à travailler pour le bien général, aient fait beaucoup de bonnes choses. Il est vrai que cette belle passion n'est pas très commune parmi les marchands, et qu'il ne faudrait pas de longs discours pour les en guérir.
Citations sur industrie
Une collection de citations sur le thème de industrie, pluie, bien-être, tout.
Citations sur industrie
Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique Septentrionale
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I, Livre II
To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
“Je n'étais pas une femme, mais une industrie de la chanson.”
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À propos de la Communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier
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À propos de la révolution française.
La France socialiste: notes d'histoire contemporaine
With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens,—A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
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Premier discours inaugural, 4 mars 1801
First of all it's wonderful propaganda for the Masonic idea. If the royal house belongs to a lodge, then it is respectable in the eyes of the broad masses, the propertied and the educated classes. All doubts are at once silenced. The Masons no longer need to defend themselves, but only point to the king, their brother Mason. Is any individual going to be more clever than his king? Such membership automatically attracts all those whom the Masons particularly want, influential officials and politicians. Without any need for further action they have won over leading political and industrial figures to Masonry. The Masonic lodge now becomes the centre of social life with riotous banquets and celebrations for the king's or prince's birthday. It all seems like a great national and social club; cheap wining and dining offer no small attraction to the official unblessed with this world's goods.
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Sur la Franc-maçonnerie
Commentaire sur l'ouvrage de Filangieri, 1822-1824
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À propos d'Antony Cyril Sutton. "Rapallo" fait référence à un traité conclu le 16 avril 1922 entre l'Allemagne et l'URSS, dans le but de normaliser leurs relations.
Introduction à la Guerre Civile en France de Karl Marx,1891
Nouvelle géographie universelle: la terre et les hommes, 1881
(...) of course i can't put the criminal's confession on the table before you with his own signature to it. To get a clear picture you must examine the activities of the Masons in the last two centuries under the microscope. Then you can confirm this: leading Masons had a part in the overthrow of every governement: They had a hand in every severe financial crisis which has brought the economy of a country to the edge of the abyss. Masons occupy the important positions in the economic and intellectual life on a country and draw other Masons after them. The decisive men who waged the First World War against us were Masons. The Second World War again finds World Masonry united against us. In some Anglo-Saxon countries it's quite impossible to achieve any position in industry or politics unless you're a Mason. Arent't these proofs enough (...)?
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Sur la Franc-maçonnerie
L'occidentisme, 1995, L'idéologie
La Monnaie vivante, 1970
Bohème littéraire et Révolution, 1983, Le monde des libraires clandestins sous l'Ancien Régime
There is no way within the system to defy the demands of Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry or war profiteers. The only route left to us, as Aristotle knew, is revolt.
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Le confino est une assignation à résidence dans les îles.
Le théâtre d’agriculture et mesnage des champs, 1600
À propos des Oscars et de la cérémonie de 2006 lors de laquelle il a remporté l'Oscar du meilleur documentaire pour La Marche de l'empereur.
Sur la colonisation de l'Algérie
Nouvelle géographie universelle: la terre et les hommes, 1881
Cosa Nostra — La mafia sicilienne de 1860 à nos jours, 2004
Economiquement incorrect, 2005
First of all it's wonderful propaganda for the Masonic idea. If the royal house belongs to a lodge, then it is respectable in the eyes of the broad masses, the propertied and the educated classes. All doubts are at once silenced. The Masons no longer need to defend themselves, but only point to the king, their brother Mason. Is any individual going to be more clever than his king? Such membership automatically attracts all those whom the Masons particularly want, influential officials and politicians. Without any need for further action they have won over leading political and industrial figures to Masonry. The Masonic lodge now becomes the centre of social life with riotous banquets and celebrations for the king's or prince's birthday. It all seems like a great national and social club; cheap wining and dining offer no small attraction to the official unblessed with this world's goods.
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Histoire de la poésie provençale
La France irréelle, 1957
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À propos de la traite négrière arabo-musulmane .
“Même dans l'industrie de la connerie, il y a contrôle de qualité.”
La Solde, 2011
Presse, Volkswagen ou la toute-puissance de l'apparence, 2015
(...) of course i can't put the criminal's confession on the table before you with his own signature to it. To get a clear picture you must examine the activities of the Masons in the last two centuries under the microscope. Then you can confirm this: leading Masons had a part in the overthrow of every governement: They had a hand in every severe financial crisis which has brought the economy of a country to the edge of the abyss. Masons occupy the important positions in the economic and intellectual life on a country and draw other Masons after them. The decisive men who waged the First World War against us were Masons. The Second World War again finds World Masonry united against us. In some Anglo-Saxon countries it's quite impossible to achieve any position in industry or politics unless you're a Mason. Arent't these proofs enough (...)?
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Les Yeux ouverts : Entretiens avec Matthieu Galey
Essais sur la conception matérialiste de l'histoire, 1902, En mémoire du Manifeste du parti communiste, 1895