Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowellis an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 June 1930
CityGastonia, NC
CountryUnited States of America
Thomas Sowell quotes about
accused businesses economist either government greed homes land order pay people turn various williams
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.
cite liberals
All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.
barren considered enormous fact feeling firmament however human ignorance ignorant intimate knowledge life might mind narrow nature outside personal range remarkable social sole specialty specific subtleties whether
Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.
discussed people terms
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
politician dangerous
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
government decision fatal-attraction
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others.
equal-treatment people discrimination
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
exactly-is share fairs
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
country jobs real
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.
imagination world facts
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
nice people grace
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.
hypocrite men panic
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
nuts class squirrels
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.
las-vegas people saving
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.