“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, th...” — Adam Smith Quote

“As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.”

“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.”

“The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.”

“The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.”

“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.”

“Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.”

“Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.”

“The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.”

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”

“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.”