Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
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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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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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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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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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Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.
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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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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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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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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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A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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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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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.