Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
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Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
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People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.
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There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
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Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
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The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education?
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Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
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The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
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Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
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There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.
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People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance.
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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
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How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.