Society and the World

I am putting old heads on your young shoulders … all my pupils are the crème de la crème.

There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.

You only have power over people as long as you don’t take everything away from them. But when you’ve robbed a man of everything he’s no longer in your power—he’s free again.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

I am not Athenian or Greek but a citizen of the world.

But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong, or when we suffer evil to defend ourselves by doing evil in return.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state.

How many things I can do without!

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Consumption is the sole end and purpose of 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.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.

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.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Men of England, wherefore plough