Adam Smith Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Giving, Desire

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations”, p.102

• Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Ambition, Men

  Adam Smith (1817). “The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Or, An Essay Towards an Analysis of the Principles by which Men Naturally Judge Concerning the Conduct and Character, First of Their Neighbours, and Afterwards of Themselves : to which is Added, A Dissertation on the Origin of Languages”, p.550

• Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Lovely, Desire

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.56, Imprint Academic

• It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Desire, Sake

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.393, Harriman House Limited

• The principle which prompts to save is the desire of bettering our conditiona desire which?comes with us from the womb and never leaves us till we go into the grave.

  Adam Smith

  Desire, Principles, Graves

  1776 An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, bk.2, ch.3.

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