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Matter Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- 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…
- It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
- When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That…
- If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays…
- 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…
- If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind…
- It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
- Consequences matter more than intentions, and not just the immediate consequences, but also the longer run repercussions of decisions, policies, and institutions.
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- 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 always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine