„Keine Kunst lernt eine Regierung schneller als die, Geld aus den Taschen der Leute zu ziehen.“
The Wealth of Nations, Book V
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Die Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
„Was man Zuneigung nennt, ist in Wirklichkeit nichts andres als Sympathie der Gewohnheit.“
Theorie der moralischen Empfindungen
Untersuchungen über die Natur und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Aus dem Englischen der vierten Ausgabe neu übersetzt. Zweyter Band. Breslau 1794. S. 206 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=XzdFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA206
Original engl.: "A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III Chapter 2: Of the Discouragement of Agriculture in the ancient State of Europe after the Fall of the Roman Empire. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_III/Chapter_2
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Adam Smith Zitate und Sprüche
zitiert in Staats-Lexikon oder Encyklopädie der Staatswissenschaften, herausgegeben von Carl von Rotteck und Karl [Theodor] Welcker. Funfzehnter Band. Altona 1843. Sichwort: Stempel S. 159 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=IzUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159
The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V Chapter 2 Part 2: Of Taxes. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/Chapter_2
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Theorie der sittlichen Gefühle. Übersetzt von Ludwig Theobul Kosegarten. Leipzig 1791 S. 3 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=2P0AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA3
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I Section I Chapter I: Of Sympathy (Der erste Satz des Buches). en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_I
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
zitiert in Staats-Lexikon oder Encyklopädie der Staatswissenschaften, herausgegeben von Carl von Rotteck und Karl [Theodor] Welcker. Funfzehnter Band. Altona 1843. Sichwort: Stempel S. 159 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=IzUNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA159
Original engl.: "There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V Chapter 2 Part 2: Of Taxes. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/Chapter_2
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Untersuchungen über das Wesen und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Deutsch von Max Stirner. Erster Band. Leipzig 1846. S. 110 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=iidFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA110
Original engl.: "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I Chapter 8: Of the Wages of Labour. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_8)
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Untersuchungen über das Wesen und die Ursachen des Nationalreichthums. Deutsch von Max Stirner. Erster Band. Leipzig 1846. S. 26 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=iidFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA26
Original engl.: "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." - The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I Chapter 2: Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_I/Chapter_2
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776)
Theorie der ethischen Gefühle. Deutsch von Walther Eckstein (1926). Felix Meiner Hamburg 2010 S. 357 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=YJklX6GnvoYC&pg=PT423
Original engl.: "What is called affection, is in reality nothing but habitual sympathy." - The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part VI Section II Chapter I: Of the Order in which Individuals are recommended by Nature to our care and attention. en.wikisource http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments/Part_VI
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
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“Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government”
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, p. 862.
Kontext: Fear is in almost all cases a wretched instrument of government, and ought in particular never to be employed against any order of men who have the smallest pretensions to independency.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 481.
Kontext: The commodities of Europe were almost all new to America, and many of those of America were new to Europe. A new set of exchanges, therefore, began.. and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new, as it certainly did to the old continent. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 448.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part II, 775.
“Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.”
Quelle: The Theory Of Moral Sentiments
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 94.
“Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.”
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Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section II, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part II
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article I, p. 911.
Kontext: The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess. A tax upon house-rents, therefore, would in general fall heaviest upon the rich; and in this sort of inequality there would not, perhaps, be anything very unreasonable. It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 152.
Kontext: People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.
“Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality.”
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part II, p. 770.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
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Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section I, Chap. I.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 14.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker”
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations (1776), Book I, Chapter II, p. 19.
Quelle: The Wealth of Nations, Books 1-3
Kontext: But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only. He will be more likely to prevail if he can interest their self-love in his favour, and shew them that it is for their own advantage to do for him what he requires of them. Whoever offers to another a bargain of any kind, proposes to do this. Give me that which I want, and you shall have this which you want, is the meaning of every such offer; and it is in this manner that we obtain from one another the far greater part of those good offices which we stand in need of. 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. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter I, p. 469.
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter VII, Part First, p. 610.
Quelle: (1776), Book I, Chapter X, Part II, p. 155.
Adam Smith
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Theorie der ethischen Gefühle
Section I, Chap. III.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), Part I
Quelle: (1776), Book IV, Chapter II
“It seldom happens, however, that a great proprietor is a great improver.”
Quelle: (1776), Book III, Chapter IV, p. 420.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Article IV, p. 954-955.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article I, p. 810.
Quelle: (1776), Book V, Chapter II, Part II, Appendix to Articles I and II.
“The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.”
Chapter X, Part I http://books.google.com/books?id=QItKAAAAYAAJ&q=%22The+world+neither+ever+saw+nor+ever+will+see+a+perfectly+fair+lottery%22&pg=PA76#v=onepage.
(1776), Book I
