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Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
American Economist
Born: Jun 30, 1930
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Related authors: Alan Greenspan Herbert A. Simon John Kenneth Galbraith Milton Friedman Paul A. Volcker Peter Navarro Richard Thaler Robert Reich
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell
People Dangerous Stupid Pay Way Those More Price Wrong Putting Making Making Decisions Than Hands Being Decisions Hard Who Imagine
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell
Today Politics You Radical Liberal Everyone Rules Would Judged Always Gotten Years Years Ago Labeled Same Should Standards Believed Play
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Thomas Sowell
Failure Socialism Record General Only Could Blatant Intellectual Ignore
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. Thomas Sowell
News Business People Important Propaganda More Understand Sources Accordingly Reporting Difference Decide Cannot Whether Public Choose Manufacturing Media
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell
Politics First Economics Lesson Enough Those Scarcity Never Want Anything Who Fully Satisfy Disregard
The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' Thomas Sowell
You Racism Word Demanding Evidence Put Like Practically Makes Anything Ketchup
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling. Thomas Sowell
Problem Feeling Think Thinking Johnny He Know Read Confuses Even
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. Thomas Sowell
Family Welfare Black State Jim Jim Crow Liberals Black Family Crow Generations Welfare State Wake Expansion Survived Disintegrated Centuries Slavery
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it. Thomas Sowell
Government Health People Amazing Doctors Pay Think We Cannot Administer Somehow Hospitals Afford Bureaucracy Cannot Who Medication
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. Thomas Sowell
Time You Diversity Important Tell Some Academics How Department Republicans Ask Next Next Time Many Sociology
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation? Thomas Sowell
You Tomorrow Weather Country Would Bet Global Global Warming Forecast Predictions Warming Then Should Your Paycheck Less Billions Even Foundation Why
The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.' Thomas Sowell
Man Vote Rights Old Will Giving Politician Has-Been Some About Give Moreover He French French Fries Him Reader How Fish Been His Versus Fries Updated Wants Old Adage Declare Ask Teaching Who Among Basic Things Sauce Adage Basic Rights
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. Thomas Sowell
People Immigration Immigration Laws Laws Only Terms How Discussed Break Them Help Help People Who
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. Thomas Sowell
Work Political Find About Fact Concentrated Ideas Institutions Most Surprised Left Survive Where Order To Survive Should Therefore Fundamental
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. Thomas Sowell
Life Government Valuable Politicians Pretense General Never Fair Make Inexhaustible Been Expand Close Want Who Even Asset
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. Thomas Sowell
More Since Talk Talkers Doers Than Articulate Specialty
Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell
Strong Liberals Strong Suit Facts Rhetoric Suit
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Thomas Sowell
Women Men Country Big Divide Between Talkers Democrats Democrats And Republicans Doers Women And Men Republicans
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. Thomas Sowell
Capitalism Gender Else Considered Only Color Knows Within Green Subservient Cannot Race Ethnicity Hence Necessarily
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Thomas Sowell
Education Reality Too Much Isolation Too More Than Expensive Little Much
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. Thomas Sowell
Face Totalitarianism Liberalism Human Human Face
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. Thomas Sowell
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. Thomas Sowell
Freedom Too Much Too Cost Relinquished Price Cheap Blood Rhetoric Much Agony
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. Thomas Sowell
You Blame Culture World Down Except Praise Western Western Culture Any Cannot Multiculturalism Boils
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. Thomas Sowell
Government People Welfare Depend State More More People Votes Welfare State Left Dependent Who
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Thomas Sowell
Education Today Great Our Neglected Great Extent Merely Indoctrination Schools Ideological Replaced Many Extent
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