Thomas Sowell Quotes

Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

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• Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

  

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• China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.

  

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• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

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• The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.

  

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• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

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• According to our social pyramid, all men who feel displaced racially, culturally, and/or because of economic hardships will turn on those whom they feel they can order and humiliate, usually women, children, and animals--just as they have been ordered and humiliated by those privileged few who are in power. However, this definition does not explain why there are privileged men who behave this way toward women.

  

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• Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to make whatever economic transactions they can mutually agree to.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Liberty
  • Economic
  • Capitalism