More from Thomas Sowell
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell 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.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell 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 SowellThomas Sowell It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell 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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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on cost
It is disgraceful to live at the cost of one’s self-respect.
B. R. AmbedkarB. R. Ambedkar A Black beauty has to protect her skin at all cost.
Nyakim GatwechNyakim Gatwech It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
Will RogersWill Rogers It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
HeraclitusHeraclitus Who wishes to fight must first count the cost
Sun TzuSun Tzu Courtesy costs nothing, but buys everything.
Imam AliImam Ali The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The greed of drug companies is out of control and the cost is human lives.
Bernie SandersBernie Sanders
