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.
THOMAS SOWELLRacism 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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