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Adam Smith skót klasszikus közgazdász és filozófus. Általában őt tartják a modern közgazdaság-tudomány atyjának. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. június 1723 – 17. július 1790
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Adam Smith híres idézetei

„A bűnösökkel szembeni kegyelem kegyetlenség az ártatlanokkal szemben.”

Adam Smith

Az erkölcsi érzelmek elmélete (1759)

„A tudomány a vallási buzgalom és a babona mérgének nagy ellenszere.”

Adam Smith

A nemzetek gazdagsága (1776)

„Csak a koldus nyugszik bele abba, hogy embertársai jóindulatától függjön, de még az sem függ csupán attól.”

Adam Smith

A nemzetek gazdagsága (1776)
Forrás: Második fejezet.

„A tőke szaporodásának a közvetlen oka nem a munka, hanem a takarékosság.”

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A nemzetek gazdagsága (1776)
Forrás: Harmadik fejezet.

„Az embernek viszont állandóan szüksége van felebarátai segítségére, de ezt hiába várja pusztán a jóindulatuktól. Sokkal valószínőbb, hogy célhoz ér, ha önzésüket nyergeli meg a maga javára és meggyőzi, hogy a saját előnyükre cselekszenek, ha megteszik azt, amit kíván tőlük.”

Adam Smith

A nemzetek gazdagsága (1776)
Forrás: Második fejezet.

„Nincs virágzó, boldog társadalom, ahol az emberek többsége nyomorult szegény.”

Adam Smith

A nemzetek gazdagsága (1776)
Forrás: Nyolcadik fejezet.

„A gyűlölet és a harag a legnagyobb méreg a jó elme boldogságának.”

Adam Smith

Az erkölcsi érzelmek elmélete (1759)

Adam Smith: Idézetek angolul

“When I endeavour to examine my own conduct, when I endeavour to pass sentence upon it, and either to approve or condemn it, it is evident that, in all such cases, I divide myself, as it were, into two persons; and that I, the examiner and judge, represent a different character from that other I, the person whose conduct is examined into and judged of.”

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Adam Smith könyv The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part III

“A merchant, it has been said very properly, is not necessarily the citizen of any particular country.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 456.

“The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 894.

“The statesman who should attempt to direct people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II

“II. The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, p. 892.

“All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Appendix to Articles I and II, p. 935.

“The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.”

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Section II, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VII

“Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 87.

“As to love our neighbour as we love ourselves is the great law of Christianity, so it is the great precept of nature to love ourselves only as we love our neighbour, or what comes to the same thing, as our neighbour is capable of loving us.”

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Section I, Chap. V.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I

“Every faculty in one man is the measure by which he judges of the like faculty in another. I judge of your sight by my sight, of your ear by my ear, of your reason by my reason, of your resentment by my resentment, of your love by my love. I neither have, nor can have, any other way of judging about them.”

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Section I, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I

“To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should never be established in it.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II, p. 505.

“The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. … As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.”

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Forrás: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter II

“In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon a level, and the beggar, who suns himself by the side of the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.”

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Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part IV

“Every man, as the Stoics used to say, is first and principally recommended to his own care; and every man is certainly, in every respect, fitter and abler to take care of himself than of any other person. Every man feels his own pleasures and his own pains more sensibly than those of other people. The former are the original sensations; the latter the reflected or sympathetic images of those sensations. The former may be said to be the substance; the latter the shadow.”

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Section II, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI

“This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are capable of performing, is owing to three different circumstances; first, to the increase of dexterity in every particular workman; secondly, to the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work of many.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter I

“the competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 154.

“It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expence, either by sumptuary laws, or by prohibiting the importation of foreign luxuries. They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expence, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book II, Chapter III, p. 381.

“All money is a matter of belief.”

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“Every man is, no doubt, by nature, first and principally recommended to his own care; and as he is fitter to take care of himself than of any other person, it is fit and right that it should be so.”

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Section II, Chap. II.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II

“Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 223.

“The rulers of Great Britain have, for more than a century past, amused the people with the imagination that they possessed a great empire on the west side of the Atlantic. This empire, however, has hitherto existed in imagination only.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book V, Chapter III, Part V, p. 1032 (Last Page).

“In the languor of disease and the weariness of old age, the pleasures of the vain and empty distinctions of greatness disappear. To one, in this situation, they are no longer capable of recommending those toilsome pursuits in which they had formerly engaged him. In his heart he curses ambition, and vainly regrets the ease and the indolence of youth, pleasures which are fled for ever, and which he has foolishly sacrificed for what, when he has got it, can afford him no real satisfaction. In this miserable aspect does greatness appear to every man when reduced either by spleen or disease to observe with attention his own situation, and to consider what it is that is really wanting to his happiness. Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which, in spite of all our care, are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor. …
But though this splenetic philosophy, which in time of sickness or low spirits is familiar to every man, thus entirely depreciates those great objects of human desire, when in better health and in better humour, we never fail to regard them under a more agreeable aspect. Our imagination, which in pain and sorrow seems to be confined and cooped up within our own persons, in times of ease and prosperity expands itself to every thing around us. We are then charmed with the beauty of that accommodation which reigns in the palaces and economy of the great; and admire how every thing is adapted to promote their ease, to prevent their wants, to gratify their wishes, and to amuse and entertain their most frivolous desires. If we consider the real satisfaction which all these things are capable of affording, by itself and separated from the beauty of that arrangement which is fitted to promote it, it will always appear in the highest degree contemptible and trifling. But we rarely view it in this abstract and philosophical light. We naturally confound it, in our imagination with the order, the regular and harmonious movement of the system, the machine or economy by means of which it is produced. The pleasures of wealth and greatness, when considered in this complex view, strike the imagination as something grand, and beautiful, and noble, of which the attainment is well worth all the toil and anxiety which we are so apt to bestow upon it.
And it is well that nature imposes upon us in this manner. It is this deception which rouses and keeps in continual motion the industry of mankind.”

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Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part IV

“In reality, during the continuance of any one regulated proportion, between the respective values of the different values of the different metals in the coin, the value of the most precious metal regulates the value of the whole coin.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 50.

“It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (Conclusion..) p. 282.

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another. Avarice over-rates the difference between poverty and riches: ambition, that between a private and a public station: vain-glory, that between obscurity and extensive reputation. The person under the influence of any of those extravagant passions, is not only miserable in his actual situation, but is often disposed to disturb the peace of society, in order to arrive at that which he so foolishly admires. The slightest observation, however, might satisfy him, that, in all the ordinary situations of human life, a well-disposed mind may be equally calm, equally cheerful, and equally contented. Some of those situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others: but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardour which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice; or to corrupt the future tranquillity of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse from the horror of our own injustice.”

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Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part III

“The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers. A great trader purchases his good always where they are cheapest and best, without regard to any little interest of this kind.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, p. 530.

“The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.”

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Section II, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II

“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.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book II, Chapter V, p. 402.

“In public, as well as in private expences, great wealth may, perhaps, frequently be admitted as an apology for great folly.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book IV, Chapter V, p. 563.

“But what all the violence of the feudal institutions could never have effected, the silent and insensible operation of foreign commerce and manufactures gradually brought about.”

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Forrás: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 448.