What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
THOMAS SOWELLIt’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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.
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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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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.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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