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Thomas Sowell Quotes
«One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
canonize, canonized, complain, demonize, signs, subsidize, subsidized, subsidizes
«Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Socialism
| Keywords:
blatant, evade, evaded, evading, in general, socialism
«Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Taxation
| Keywords:
April, discourage, elections, election day, income, income taxes, taxes, the 16th, The Day After
«If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Liberty,
Terrorism,
War
| Keywords:
barbarians, The Barbarians
«Most wars are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Welfare
| Keywords:
administer, bureaucracy, doctors, hospitals, medication
«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.»
«Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cast iron, concrete, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, density, emptiness, incredible, linked, mostly, one iron, physicist, physicists, powerfully, properties, scattered, solid, specks
