Thomas Sowell Quotes
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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Well into the 20th century, scholars viewed economic advances as resulting from commercial innovations enabled by the discoveries of scientists - discoveries that come from outside the economy and out of the blue.
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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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China should be another United States from an economic standpoint. Beijing should be another Silicon Valley.
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Our policy on the annexation of Crimea, which we consider illegal, will stay.
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In Japan, full-time homemakers have no economic power of their own, and they socially lead a faceless, anonymous existence.
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For India, the links with the United States/Israel are the centrepiece of its foreign policy.
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But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
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We don't want a president who fails at domestic and foreign policy.
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The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
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I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
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Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
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I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining.
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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It’s legend now, but legend is the smoke from the fire, and the wood that the fire consumes is the substance.
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It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.
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Men go to a fire for entertainment. When I see how eagerly men will run to a fire, whether in warm or in cold weather, by day or by night, dragging an engine at their heels, I'm astonished to perceive how good a purpose the level of excitement is made to serve.
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I think perhaps it wasn’t a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it’s nice and hot by the fire, there’s something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.
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I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
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To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.
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Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.
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No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?
