Loud Thinking

To feel much for others and little for ourselves;
to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent
affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

No society can surely be flourishing and happy,
of which the far greater part of the members are
poor and miserable.
Adam Smith

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

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.
Adam Smith