Thomas Sowell Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.”
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“If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have.”
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“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 SowellSource : "Wake Up, Parents!". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 18, 2000.
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“You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.”
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“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”
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“Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap.”
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“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.”
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“Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare.”
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“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.”
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“One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.”
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“What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?”
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“People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.”
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“The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.”
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“People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense.”
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“Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes”
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“What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying.”
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“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
-- Thomas SowellSource : Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books
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“The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".”
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“Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.”
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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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“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.”
-- Thomas SowellSource : Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press
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“We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.”
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“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”
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“People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.”
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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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“Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.”
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“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”
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“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
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“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
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“There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.”
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