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"A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."
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View Full QuoteView Full Quote"The nature of a civilization is what aggregates around a religion. Our civilization is incapable of building a temple or a tomb. It will be forced to find its fundamental value, or it will decompose. And the great phenomenon of our era is the violence of the Islamic thrust."
"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
menu_book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
View Full Quote"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."
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The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Adam Smith's foundational work on moral philosophy, exploring how human sympathy and the impartial spectator guide ethical judgment, long before he...
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