Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
Adam Smith, babai i kapitalizmit modern, u shpresh si me poshte. Ia vlen te ndalemi pak tek kjo thenie: "Burimi i madh i fatkeqesive dhe kaosit ne jeten njerezore duket se fshihet ne mbivleresimin e ndryshimit midis nje gjendjeje te perhershme dhe nje tjetre... Disa nga keto gjendje, pa dyshim, meritojne te jene me te preferuara, po asnje nga ato nuk e meriton te deshirohet