Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
THOMAS SOWELLEconomics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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 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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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