Adam Quotes - Page 11

• Laissez Faire, laissez passer. Let it be, let it pass. The phrase is not readily translatable. It was widely used by the Physiocrats in urging freedom from government interference and was adopted by Adam Smith.

  Francois Quesnay

  Freedom, Government, Phrases

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• The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

  John Milton

  Angel, Voice, Ears

  John Milton (1750). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.67

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• It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Needs, Fine Things

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.64, Wordsworth Editions

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• As against the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith, there has to be a visible hand of politicians whose objective is to have the kind of society that is caring and humane.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Caring, Hands, Invisible Hand

  Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1995). “Memoirs”, McClelland & Stewart Limited

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• I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn't learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God's injunction and Adam's loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. Hurry, they say, he'll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.

  Verlyn Klinkenborg

  Mistake, Book, Character

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• Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.

  Albion Woodbury Small

  Philosophy, Technique, Analysis

  Albion Woodbury Small (1907). “Adam Smith and Modern Sociology: A Study in the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, Chicago, U. P

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• If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

  David Henry

  Real, Men, Today

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• One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

  Peter Jackson

  West, Saws, Firsts

  "Peter Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 11, 2009.

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• Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.

  Nelson Mandela

  Spiritual, Hard Work, Successful

  "The Sacred Warrior" by Nelson Mandela, content.time.com. December 31, 1999.

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• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

  Zane Grey

  Eye, Rivers, Desert

  Zane Grey (2015). “Western Classics Premium Collection – 27 Novels in One Volume: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Last Trail, The Mysterious Rider, The Border Legion, Desert Gold, The Last of the Plainsmen and more”, p.5023, e-artnow

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• Thanks to economists, all of us, from the days of Adam Smith and before right down to the present, tariffs are perhaps one tenth of one percent lower than they otherwise would have been. And because of our efforts, we have earned our salaries ten-thousand fold.

  Milton Friedman

  Effort, Salary, Tariffs

  "Milton Friedman RIP" by Walter Block, mises.org. November 17, 2006.

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• When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Luxury, Term, Incoherence

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “On The Wealth of Nations: A Book that Shook the World”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Fall, Garden

  Max Lucado (2011). “Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional”, p.60, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

  Paul P. Enns

  Men, Giving, Enemy

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• Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Evolution, Rejoice, Creatures

  Jaroslav Jan Pelikan, Martin Luther (1958). “Luther's Works, Volume 1 (Genesis Chapters 1-5)”, Concordia Pub House

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• Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

  Martin Luther

  Animal, Joy, Evolution

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• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Children, Islamic

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• Come my spade. There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Gentleman, Dying

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [32]

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• Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to be spiced with disaster, except of course in sport. It was all very well for Adam Lindsay Gordon to have shot himself, but it would never have done for Don Bradman.

  Geoffrey Dutton

  Sports, Distance, Tragedy

  Geoffrey Dutton (1981). “The Australian Heroes: A Rousing Roll Call of 47 of Australia's Greatest Heroes and Heroines”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Naked, World

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• Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But as I walked on eastward that afternoon through my private, segregated, Tonto world (exercising due care at first for previously protected sectors of my anatomy) I found I had gained more than coolness. I felt a quite unexpected freedom from restraint. And after a while I found that I had moved on to a new kind of simplicity. A simplicity that had a fitting, Adam-like, in-the-beginning earliness about it.

  Colin Fletcher

  Exercise, Men, Simplicity

  Colin Fletcher (1972). “The Man who Walked Through Time”, Vintage

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• If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.

  Anita Bryant

  Normal, Homosexuality, Ifs

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• Smith, as we have said, was not the proponent of any one class. He was a slave to his system. His whole economic philosophy stemmed from his unquestioning faith in the ability of the market to guide the system to its point of highest return. The market — that wonderful social machine — would take care of society's needs if it was left alone. "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production," he wrote.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Letting Go, Philosophy, Class

  "The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers".

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• The first and probably most fundamental aspect of this crisis is that we are now close to the commodification of everything. That is, historical capitalism is in crisis precisely because, in pursuing the endless accumulation of capital, it is beginning to approximate that state of being Adam Smith asserted was 'natural' to man but which has never historically existed. The 'propensity [of humanity] to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another' has entered into domains and zones previously untouched, and the pressure to expand commodification is relatively unchecked.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Men, Humanity, Historical

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• It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Water, Parent

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