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Thomas Sowell Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“You can't stop people from saying bad things about you. All you can do is make them liars.”
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays(Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Tagged: Judgement, Negative Statements, Slander
“There seems to be a growing number of people who think that the world should adjust to them, while they don't have to show any consideration to anyone.”
— Thomas Sowell, Random Thoughts
Tagged: Entitlement, consideration
“Insulating people from reality produces unrealistic people. It doesn't matter whether they are welfare recipients, spoiled rich kids, tenured professors in the ivy league, or federal judges with lifetime appointments.”
— Thomas Sowell, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays(Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Tagged: Insulation, Being Blocked Off From The World, Isolated Communities, Ideological Ghettos, College Professors, Tenure
“People don't usually grow up when there are other people who make excuses for their immaturity.”
— Thomas Sowell, Boomers and Boomerangs
Tagged: Growing Up, Non-Judgemental, Judgement
“Few skills are so well rewarded as the ability to convince parasites that they are victims.”
— Thomas Sowell, Controversial Essays(Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Tagged: Parasites
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
— Thomas Sowell, Knowledge And Decisions
Tagged: Freedom, Talk Is Cheap
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
— Thomas Sowell, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
Tagged: Capitalism, Government vs. Corporations, Consumer Protection, Societal Organization
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
— Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader
Tagged: Against Socialsim, Socialism
“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, Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays(Hoover Institution Press Publication)
Tagged: Economics vs. Politics, Scarcity, Society, Politics
“One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.”
— Thomas Sowell, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
Tagged: Capitalism, Government vs. Corporations, Societal Organization
“The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.”
— Thomas Sowell, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays
Tagged: Communist Propaganda, Communism, Socialism, Communism Vs. Capitalism
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