Thomas Sowell Quotes

A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

Thomas Sowell

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• The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • People
  • Work
  • Think

• Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Time
  • Computers

• Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Want
  • Me
  • Look

• I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Men
  • Think
  • Faithful

• Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Learn
  • Piano
  • Orchestra

• It should not be the government running the economy.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Running
  • Government
  • Should

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Great
  • Mom

• The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • Good
  • Abuse

• I've started to show the consistency in majors I had in regular tournaments back in 1998-2000 when I was contending nearly every week.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Consistency

• Percentages are why I am rich.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Why

• As an actor, you get a bit itchy to do something entirely different.

  

  Lily James
  • Different

• As complicated and complex and as difficult as we are, the unity of Europe is a pre-condition for a better organized world, and if the European Union would fail or decompose, or other members left, the U.S. would have a more difficult role to play in the world.

  

  Jean-Claude Juncker
  • World
  • Unity

• The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nature

• We need to restart political processes to end wars.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Political
  • End
  • Need

• I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh.

  

  Jared Padalecki
  • Up
  • Great
  • Remember

• A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Justice
  • Commitment
  • Hell