Thomas Sowell Quotes
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not the type of person that is forced.
-
Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.
-
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.
-
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.
-
Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
-
I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.
-
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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!
-
There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?
-
Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
-
I am running (for president) because I think the world is falling apart.
-
I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
-
If your employer pays your health insurance, that's not counted as income to you. And any economist would say that's your income, because they'd pay a higher wage if they didn't take it. That's a huge loss to the Treasury.
-
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
-
If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
