Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the in... by Adam Smith | We Heart Quotes

Capitalism Economics The Wealth of Nations

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

- Adam Smith

Other quotes by Adam Smith

Individual ambition serves the common good.

- Adam Smith

Conscience Virtue

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

- Adam Smith

Detail Opinion

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

- Adam Smith

Conscience Happiness Man

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

- Adam Smith

Superiority Desire Man

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.

- Adam Smith

Peace Rest Being

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

- Adam Smith

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