Adam Smith — "The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and…"

The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or at least to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition, though necessary both to establish and to maintain the distinction of ranks and the order of society, is, at the same time, the great and most universal cause of the corruption of our moral sentiments.
Adam Smith — Adam Smith Early Modern · Wealth of Nations, capitalism

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part I, Section III, Chapter III

Date: 1759

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