Adam Quotes - Page 19

• Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.

  Allen W. Wood

  Way, Economic, Interest

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adam Smith saw the greed of modern capitalism for what it was - a form of destructive ambition that may have favorable effects on the productive capacities of society, but which is of no direct benefit to anyone - not even to the greedy themselves, whose illusory chase after a will-o-the-wisp leaves them morally bankrupt and unhappy.

  Allen W. Wood

  Ambition, Greed, Unhappy

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Highly unequal societies are morally defective because they get to be that way through the exploitation by the clever and well-positioned ones of the vulnerabilities and weaknesses of others. The well-off then use their acquired political power to refuse to make sacrifices for others. This system brings us a wonderful range of products and experiences for consumers at the top of the privilege scale, but it also degrades and benumbs the workers at the lower end, as Adam Smith and Marx both said.

  Catherine Wilson

  Clever, Sacrifice, Political

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• But all this language gotten, and augmented by Adam and his posterity, was again lost at the tower of Babel , when by the hand of God, every man was stricken for his rebellion, with an oblivion of his former language.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Hands, Towers

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works To which is Prefixed the Autors Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself ... Illustr. by the Ed. - London 1750”, p.107

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• I worked with Adam Pally and he's hilarious and the king of improv!

  Jacob Hopkins

  Kings

  Source: hollywoodlife.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

  Walt Dohrn

  Doe, Troll, Creation

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

  Leonard Cohen

  Attention, Privilege

  4 Copy quote

• Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, Men, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.

  Judd Nelson

  Dark, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adam Schiff, who is of course the ranking member on the House Select Committee said earlier today I`d be worried about an impulsive president with an impulsive national security adviser.

  Kristen Welker

  House, President, Today

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

  Andrew Lam

  Fall, Eden, Stories

  "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've got my iPod and I've got it on shuffle. If I'm not ready for one, I'll click to the next one. My wife, Lori, and our children, Adam, Nate, Chris, and Luke, will all tell you that when I find one I like it can stay on repeat for weeks on end.

  Bill Walton

  Children, Ipods, Wife

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adam Smith, and other able writers to whom I have alluded, not having viewed correctly the principles of rent, have, it appears to me, overlooked many important truths, which can only be discovered after the subject of rent is thoroughly understood.

  David Ricardo

  Important, Able, Principles

  David Ricardo (1821). “On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation”, p.6

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Wise, Children, Parent

  Robert Charles Wilson (2009). “Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America”, p.593, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Errors, Skills, People

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility"”, p.25, Random House

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• [The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Stories, Firsts, Chapters

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The celebrated Adam Smith was the first to point out the immense increase of production, and the superior perfection of products referable to this division of labour.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Perfection, Division, Firsts

  Jean Baptiste Say, Charles Robert Prinsep (1857). “A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth”, p.91

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

  Mary Pratt

  Snakes, Apples, Legends

  4 Copy quote

• Ah, what balance is needed at
  the edges of such an abyss.
  I am left alone on the surface
  of a turning planet. What
  to do but, like Michelangelo's
  Adam, put my hand
  out into unknown space,
  hoping for the reciprocating touch?

  R. S. Thomas

  Hands, Space, Balance

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Silly, Evil

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Movie Edition: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.32, Thomas Nelson Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We've sort of agreed that the account of Adam and Eve is a story.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stories, Adam And Eve, Accounts

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Independent

  Interview with Robert Penn Warren, whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu. June 2, 1964.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too.

  Wesley Morris

  Hair, Land, Differences

  4 Copy quote

• We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

  Tilda Swinton

  Ideas, Environment, Young

  Source: www.nerve.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source