The desire of food is not to be gratified in order to obtain wealth, but the desire of wealth in order to gratify the desire of food.
Wealth of Nations, capitalism
Lectures on Justice, Police, Revenue and Arms, Part I, Introduction
1762-1763
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"The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects."
Controversial"The great source of our miseries is the comparison of our own condition with that of others."
Controversial"The value of a commodity, or the quantity of any other commodity for which it will exchange, depends on the quantity of labour which it enables him to purchase or command."
Controversial"The wages of labour are the encouragement of industry, which, like every other human quality, improves in proportion to the encouragement it receives."
Controversial"The interest of the landlord is always, more or less, connected with the general interest of the society."
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