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Thomas Sowell

If people in the media cannot ...

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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Thomas Sowell

Life in general has never been...

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

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Thomas Sowell

As for gun control advocates, ...

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

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Thomas Sowell

In liberal logic, if life is u...

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

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Thomas Sowell

Brainy folks were also present...

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

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Thomas Sowell

Join in the new game that's sw...

Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called 'Bureaucracy' Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do anything loses.

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Thomas Sowell

The first lesson of economics ...

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

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Thomas Sowell

It is amazing how many of thos...

It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves 'thinking people' respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to certain sounds.

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Thomas Sowell

What is more frightening than ...

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.

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Thomas Sowell

Much of the self-righteous non...

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?

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Thomas Sowell

Leaving prices out of the pict...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.

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Thomas Sowell

Liberals are very broadminded:...

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side

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Thomas Sowell

Liberals seem to assume that, ...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help

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Thomas Sowell

People who enjoy meetings shou...

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

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Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use...

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

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Thomas Sowell

Despite a voluminous and often...

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on 'income distribution,' the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

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Thomas Sowell

The big divide in this country...

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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Thomas Sowell

Talkers are usually more artic...

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

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Thomas Sowell

Any politician who starts shou...

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, 'What about the other 90 percent of the people?'

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Thomas Sowell

One of the consequences of suc...

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.

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