Thomas Sowell Quotes

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Amazing, Medication

• 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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  Tags in Poorest, Bracket

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Prepared, Barbarism

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Battle, Barbarian

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rhetoric, Agony, Freedom

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Mere, Divorced

• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discourage, Day

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Too Late, Barbarian

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Gender, Ethnicity

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Free Speech, Legally

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Balanced, Accounting

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Tags in Frivolous, Lawsuits

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Standards, Gotten

• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Often, Lives

• People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Leadership

  Tags in Charge, Enjoy

Thomas Sowell (55)

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

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