Thomas Sowell Quotes

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Thomas Sowell

Profession : Economist

Birth : June 30, 1930

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

Thomas Sowell

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

Thomas Sowell

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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It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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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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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

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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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Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

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The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

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Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

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Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

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Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

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Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions.

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Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

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