Quote by Adam Smith
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, an

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Category:
Labor Day
Read Quote

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. – Adam Smith

Category:
Business
Read Quote

Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

Category:
Money
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature. – C. S. Lewis

Category:
Nature

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body. – Quintilian

Category:
Nature

Nature chooses who will be transgender individuals dont choose this. – Mercedes Ruehl

Category:
Nature

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy. – Franz Liszt

Category:
Nature

Random Quotes

Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – George Eliot

Category:
Portraits

I dont need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends Ive never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word friend. I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship. – Stefanie Powers

Category:
Friendship

Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. – Edward Young, Night Thoughts

Category:
Age

I just hope God does not get bored of dreaming me. – Author Unknown

Category:
God