Thomas Sowell Quotes

Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

Thomas Sowell

• Planning
• States
• Activism
• Judicial
• Elites
• Nannies

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.

  

  Walter Ulbricht
  • Secret
  • Planning
  • German

• Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Done
  • City
  • Garden

• Planned Parenthood has a right to operate. Planned Parenthood has a right to provide family planning services. Planned parenthood has a right to perform abortions.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Family
  • Planning
  • Planned

• The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Planning

• For many years, I supported the concept of separate states.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Years
  • States
  • Many

• I'm not very good at vacationing or relaxing or planning any of that for myself. So I'm in the habit of piggy-backing off of gigs and deciding to stay an extra day.

  

  Verite
  • Good
  • Day
  • Myself

• I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Future
  • Water
  • Organization

• When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Technology
  • Creativity
  • Planning

• Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• I have never had any success in planning my life, really.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Life
  • Success
  • Planning

• Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Door
  • Walking
  • Planning

• A lot of missions for NASA or experiments on accelerators happen through a whole process of scientific retreats, long-range planning, forming collaborations to do studies - all this kind of stuff. It's very democratic.

  

  Barry Barish
  • Long
  • Planning

• I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent.

  

  Dolph Lundgren
  • Exercise
  • Planning

• Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• If I live to be 90, and I'm planning to, I'll always love performing for a live audience.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Live
  • Planning

• I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.

  

  Colleen Haskell
  • Great
  • Job
  • Movie

• It's not his demeanor we're voting on. We're voting on what his judicial philosophy will mean for the court,

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Philosophy
  • Court
  • Judicial

• Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

  

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White
  • Home
  • States
  • Agreement

• A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Up
  • Political

• Laws are made with such attention to protecting women that, if a man's constitutional rights conflict with a woman's protection, his rights disintegrate before her protection disintegrates.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Attention

• Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Planning
  • States
  • Activism