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?
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We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.
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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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The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.
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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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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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All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
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I didn't quit movies. They quit me.
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Cast is everything.
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I spent my earlier years putting people in the hospital and now I spend my time trying to keep them out of the hospital
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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?
