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Making Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
- Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision…
- Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling.…
- A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those…
- In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â…
- 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.…
- Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and…
- Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as…
- Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
- 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…
- Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
- The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same…
- Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of…
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