Thomas Sowell Quotes

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

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• Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.

  

  Ed Smith
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Progress

• Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Ugly
  • Machine

• My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.

  

  Fat Joe
  • America
  • Parents
  • Education

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

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Evil
  • Goodness
  • Vice

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Everyday
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• We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Travel
  • Daily
  • Charity

• As a father, I would say I am more like a mother. I do a lot of hugging.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Hugging

• For me, the key is years of the blessed filmmakers I've worked with giving me permission to be bold and jump off cliffs and to be boundaryless. I would put David Lynch at the top of that list.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Blessed
  • Jump
  • Bold

• I'm not a big jazz fan.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Jazz
  • Fan
  • Big

• It is impossible to publish your book, and it will not be published in the next 200 years.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Book

• 'If some of the current politicians had been around a few thousand years ago,' she’d said, 'we never would have gotten out of Africa. Boats cost too much.'

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • She

• It is time we admitted that we are not at war with 'terrorism'. We are at war with Islam. This is not to say that we are at war with all Muslims, but we are absolutely at war with the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran. The only reason Muslim fundamentalism is a threat to us is because the fundamentals of Islam are a threat to us.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • Time
  • War

• It often happens that we are most touched by what we are least capable of. Evanescent delicacy is not the quality in the arts that I admire most, but it is often the characteristic by which I am most reduced to envy.

  

  Clive James
  • Quality
  • Envy

• To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

  

  David Thibodeau
  • People
  • Experience
  • Hurt

• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Best
  • Sometimes
  • Make

• All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Painting, like passion, is a living voice, which, when I hear it, I must let it speak, unfettered.

  

  Barnett Newman
  • Passion
  • Painting
  • Voice

• The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.

  

  Bhagat Singh
  • Life
  • Good
  • Mind

• I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • World
  • Value

• The 21st Century Glass-Steagall Act will reestablish a wall between commercial and investment banking, make our financial system more stable and secure, and protect American families.

  

  Elizabeth Warren
  • American
  • Wall
  • Financial

• Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Political
  • Justice
  • Social