Thomas Sowell Quotes

The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

Thomas Sowell

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• We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number.

  

  Nathaniel Smith
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Reason

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • Government
  • Promise
  • Generation

• I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Past
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Government
  • Look
  • Forward

• I wish I could do 50 projects a year.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Wish
  • Year
  • I Wish

• They have been talking about a dictatorship and they were right because there's a dictatorship and there's a government that has been fighting that dictatorship, the dictatorship of the media.

  

  Rafael Correa
  • Government
  • Fighting
  • Media

• When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wish
  • Been
  • Quarrel

• The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way - the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Good
  • Government
  • Organization

• I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.

  

  Man Ray
  • Wish
  • Existence
  • Paint

• Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Reason
  • Step
  • Where

• We need to allow people to bypass government... to look to themselves for solving problems rather than asking the government to do things for them.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Government
  • Problems

• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Man
  • Facts
  • Thinks

• Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Country
  • American

• Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Government

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• I want to see the king.Wonderful. I'm glad for you.Why are you so glad?Because it's good for every human being to have an unfulfilled wish. It makes all of life so poignant.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.

  

  Bono U2
  • Government
  • Taxes
  • Schools

• It was just me and my mum growing up, and my mum's always said that's why I'm so mature. We were best friends, and if it wasn't for her, I wouldn't even have started athletics, because she wanted me to have a hobby.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Why
  • She

• So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Sometimes
  • Hard
  • Wounds

• The worst enemy of humanity is U.S. capitalism. That is what provokes uprisings like our own, a rebellion against a system, against a neoliberal model, which is the representation of a savage capitalism. If the entire world doesn't acknowledge this reality, that the national states are not providing even minimally for health, education and nourishment, then each day the most fundamental human rights are being violated.

  

  Evo Morales
  • World
  • Reality
  • Health

• The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Wish
  • Government
  • Reason