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General Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But…
- Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.…
- In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
- When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was…
- Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw…
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
- The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
- The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
- Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- 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…
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- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to… — Jane Austen
- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin