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亚当·斯密 经济学的主要创立者

亚当·斯密(Adam Smith),1723年6月5日出生在苏格兰法夫郡(County Fife)的柯卡尔迪(Kirkcaldy) ,英国经济学家、哲学家、作家,经济学的主要创立者。

All money is a matter of belief.
Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this no dog exchanges bones with another.
The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
The division of labor is limited by the extent of the market.
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.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The first duty of the sovereign, that of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies, can be performed only by means of a military force.
Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national as well as private opulence is originally derived.
It is not the benevolence of the employer that determines the wages of labor, but the competition among employers.
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
要将一个国家从最低级的野蛮状态带到最高度的富裕,所需的几乎只有和平、低税收和较为合理的司法管理。
同行很少聚在一起,即使是为了娱乐,谈话最终都会以反对公众的阴谋或提高价格的某种策划而结束。
 试图指导私人如何使用他们的资本的政治家,不仅会使自己背负起极不必要的责任,还会行使一种权力,它不能被信任交给任何单个个体,甚至不能被信任交给任何理事会或议会,而且这种权力在愚蠢和自负到足以自认为有资格行使它的人手中最为危险。
每个个体改善自身状况的自然努力,当在自由和安全的情况下得以发挥时,是如此强大,以至于它不仅能够独自,不受任何协助,推动社会走向富裕和繁荣,而且能够克服往往由愚蠢的人类法律造成的百般妨碍。