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Economic Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
- 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?"
- One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those…
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for…
- No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When…
- If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when…
- Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of ordinary people to…
- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
- Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
- Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
- The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as…
- It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people…
- Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded…
- The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of…
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
- Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
- Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power…
- 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…
More Economic Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Well, there's a question as to what sort of information is important in the world, what sort of information can achieve reform.… — Julian Assange
- The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be… — David Attenborough
- Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and… — David Attenborough
- We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated… — Ibrahim Babangida
- One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare,… — Michelle Bachelet
- Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have… — Michelle Bachelet
- My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation. — Michelle Bachelet
- I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe.… — Michele Bachmann
- It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his… — Russell Baker
- Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property. — Frederic Bastiat