Thomas Sowell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

101 Famous Quotes by Thomas Sowell
“Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called "Bureaucracy" Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.”
Bureaucracy Quotes
“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: 'No man should have so much.' The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: 'All men should have so much.'”
Communism Quotes
“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.”
Economics Quotes
“It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.”
Ideology Quotes
“What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.”
Ideology Quotes
“It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves "thinking people" respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.”
Intellectuals Quotes
“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?”
Legislation Quotes
“Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.”
Legislation Quotes
“Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side”
Liberalism Quotes
“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”
Liberalism Quotes
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
Meetings Quotes
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism”
Preparation Quotes
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
Prosperity Quotes
“Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?”
Public policy Quotes
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Rhetoric Quotes
“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.”
Rhetoric Quotes
“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”
Rhetoric Quotes
“Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"”
Rhetoric Quotes
“One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”
Socialism Quotes
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it”
Socialism Quotes
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."”
Socialism Quotes
“With various people complaining about "price gouging”... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" — not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.”
Taxes Quotes
“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.”
Terrorism Quotes
“One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.”
Welfare Quotes
“The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help."”
Welfare Quotes
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