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Human Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is…
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
- Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords…
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
- What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
- 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 Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- If there is any aim to achieve by all of us as a human being, it is to be so strong that… — Senoraroy
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell