Thomas Sowell Quotes
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
Quotes to Explore
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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Nuclear power is not a miracle key for the future.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved who I am not. Even if you're not accepted, at least you are still yourself.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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A good leader must be fair.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
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Abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
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The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
