Thomas Sowell Quotes
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You do not need proof for what people want to believe.
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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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Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
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The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.
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If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.
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When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
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All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
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Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.
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The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions. In the short run, it got mayors re-elected. In the long-run, it reduced Detroit from a thriving city to an economic disaster area, whose population was cut in half, as its most productive citizens fled.
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Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
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There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
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Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
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Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.
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I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing.
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You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.
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Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance.
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Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation.
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How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?