Thomas Sowell Quotes

• Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

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

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• Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

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• The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

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• The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

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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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• Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

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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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• It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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• 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 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

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  Tags in Standards, Gotten

• Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

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• Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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• Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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• Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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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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Thomas Sowell (55)

Birth:	30th June, 1930
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Economist, Philosopher, Theorist

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