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Hands Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by…
- Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of…
- 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…
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
- 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…
- A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are so willing to…
- 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…
- People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
- 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…
- For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen