Thomas Sowell Quotes

If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Person
  • Type
  • Forced

• Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Life
  • Strength
  • Run

• A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Just
  • News
  • Entertainment

• Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Friends
  • Worry
  • Moral

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Band

• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Independent
  • Intellectual

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Living

• I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Woman
  • Catholic
  • Mathematics

• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• I have white hair now, but a lot of it, and I'm still very glamorous, and so I won't disappoint, I hope! I'll still be wearing the tight leather trousers and high-heel boots, regardless of what age!

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • High
  • Hope
  • Age

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Bad
  • Judgment
  • Standardized

• Failure to properly control our borders costs citizens in many ways: schools become overcrowded, medical resources are stretched too thin, other government services are overtaxed, and taxes increase further.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • Control
  • Government
  • Failure

• The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • School
  • Kids

• So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Words
  • Body
  • Speak

• I'm absolutely a Ron Paul fan.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Fan
  • Absolutely
  • Ron

• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  

  Max Brooks
  • People
  • Financial
  • Scary

• If you're going to say to all the people that you're working with, 'We want you to treat the customers honestly; don't lie and don't cheat,' it is somewhat hypocritical if you're not following the same rules.

  

  James Sinegal
  • People

• It's not my concern to make a commercial pop record. I want to make a record of music that I would listen to, that is lyrically rich and has songs that people can relate to - more along the Jakob Dylan route: people who create for the art of it and not necessarily the monetary rewards of it.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Mean
  • Opinion