Adam Smith Quotes About Violence

Quotes about: Violence

• The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

  Adam Smith

  Fall, Passion, Empathy

  Adam Smith, James R. Otteson (2004). “Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.22, Imprint Academic

• Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

  Adam Smith

  Doe, Maintenance, Violence

  Adam Smith, Laurence Dickey (1993). “Wealth of Nations (Abridged)”, p.91, Hackett Publishing

• Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

  Adam Smith

  Violence, Excited, Animosity

  Adam Smith, J.R. McCulloch (1828). “Aninquiry in to the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With a Life of the Author, an Introductory Discourse, Notes, and Supplemental Dissertations by J.R. McCulloch”, p.349

• 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.

  Adam Smith

  Violence, Silent, Institutions

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.267, Harriman House Limited

• The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.

  Adam Smith

  Evil, Violence, Injustice

  Adam Smith (2008). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: A Selected Edition”, OUP Oxford

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