Adam Smith

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Adam Smith

• Sains adalah penangkal yang tangguh terhadap racun racun pikiran dan takhayul (Adam Smith).
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• 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).
• Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer (Adam Smith).
• 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).
• As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce (Adam Smith).
• 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 (Adam Smith).
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• Tragedi yang tampak nyata dari orang miskin adalah kemiskinan aspirasi mereka (Adam Smith).

Adam Smith

Seperti telah dikemukakan dimuka, Adam Smith adalah seorang filsuf sosial  dan  sarjana ekonomi politik yang kenamaan. Karya-nya seperti The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) dan An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) sampai kini diakui oleh kalangan luas sebagai  karya  yang menjulang tinggi dalam sejarah pemikiran social dan ekonomi.

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Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with “what can I give” spirit (A.P.J Abdul Kalam, President India 2002 – 2007)

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