Intellect is not wisdom. Thomas Sowell More Quotes by Thomas Sowell More Quotes From Thomas Sowell Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended. Thomas Sowell concerned economics The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return. How are parents who never received a decent education themselves to recognize that their children are not getting a decent education? Thomas Sowell long children school If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions. Thomas Sowell patriotic mean people How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape, can be admired by people who call themselves liberals is one of the many wonders of the human mind's ability to rationalize. Yet such is the case with Fidel Castro. Thomas Sowell men country people 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. Thomas Sowell differences media people It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell laughter ignorance funny Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong. Thomas Sowell party reality thinking Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. Thomas Sowell generations too-late civilization Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love. Thomas Sowell four love sex There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? Thomas Sowell government doe two 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. Thomas Sowell taken jobs mean Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence. Thomas Sowell political taken years Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception? Thomas Sowell government doe running People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is. Thomas Sowell truth-is interest people There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people. Thomas Sowell creating jobs philosophy An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground. Thomas Sowell moral-high-ground mail mean Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored. Thomas Sowell political pay people Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other. Thomas Sowell government hands people If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent. Thomas Sowell dollars israel sports The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with. Thomas Sowell differences trying people
