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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
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation. Thomas Sowell
Too Liberals Cite Statistics Correlation Causation Forget Often Warning
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. Thomas Sowell
Guard Ourselves Facts Check Least Very Flatter Against Us Should Beliefs
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds? Thomas Sowell
Words Job Consequences Liberals Blacks No Question Concern Match Question Impressive Intentions Deeds Expressed Expressing Actual
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. Thomas Sowell
Work Time People Will Inevitably Hands Who Waste
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. Thomas Sowell
Blame Hate People Problems Other Those Followers Various Leaders Countries Economically Times Behind Taught Groups
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education. Thomas Sowell
Education Peace Gender Too Other Propaganda About Rather Price Studies Part Academic Than Departments Often Creating Ethnic Whole Serious
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. Thomas Sowell
People Other Our Unless Out Telling Colleges Feel Schools Cannot Turning Fulfilled Who
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. Thomas Sowell
Truth Complete Ways Telling Only Anonymously Two
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Thomas Sowell
Vision Will Mistakes Pay Pay Attention Those Corrected Facts Attention Dogmatism Who
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. Thomas Sowell
Power Society Programs Gullible More More Power Mystical Putting References Hearts Hands Bureaucrats May Warm Really Means Help
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. Thomas Sowell
Best Words Thinking Other Others Worst Case Idealism Wishful Wishful Thinking Opposite Expense In Other Words Either
The real minimum wage is zero. Thomas Sowell
Minimum Minimum Wage Real Wage Zero
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. Thomas Sowell
World Saved Jobs More Steel Higher Prices Industry Around Losses Sales Than American Fewer Which Mean Turn Far Means Products Save
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. Thomas Sowell
Battle Win Down Wimps Civilization Versus Going Barbarians
A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. Thomas Sowell
Monopoly Marketplace Moral Ideas Antithesis
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more. Thomas Sowell
Government Say Spent Would More Only Recover Had Economy Does Always Still Itself Bankruptcy Worked Even
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. Thomas Sowell
Time Vision Political Conservatives Caring Our Liberals Our Time Visions Most Pervasive Less Compassionate
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. Thomas Sowell
People Wealth Inflation Way Having Take Openly Most Without Tax Them Taxes Universal Raise
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. Thomas Sowell
Black Charlatans Shameless Generations Leaders Noble Over Souls
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. Thomas Sowell
Politics Political Economics Big Rich Pay Melodrama Moral About Angst Share Part Fair Fair Share Getting
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. Thomas Sowell
World Live Imagination Conservatives Liberals Kind Would Rather Fact Stuck Most Up Than Suspect In Fact Prefer Even
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. Thomas Sowell
Education History Vision School Our Those System Would Prevails Attention Study Likely Undermine Parts Left Get Which Much Much Attention Elementary Elementary School
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. Thomas Sowell
Seem More Budget Budgets Likely Balanced Balanced Budget Genuinely Accounting Than Ingenuity Produce Requirements
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. Thomas Sowell
War Brainy Brilliant Defense Lyndon Secretary Kids Administration Tried Pentagon Folks Johnson Results Disastrous Robert Also Were Where Vietnam Vietnam War Whiz Present
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say. Thomas Sowell
You Group Others Say Individual Allow Opinion Get Going Influenced Want Much Less Who Each Coordinate Present Honest
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. Thomas Sowell
Technology Class Top Top Ten Percent Blacks Ten Students Bottom Puts Institute Massachusetts Accepts MIT Them
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