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Nothing Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child…
- There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.
- 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…
- There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western…
- Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new…
- Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would…
- Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
- You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
- Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something,…
- Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a…
- Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have…
- The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or…
- One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently…
- Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of…
More Nothing Quotes
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
- Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There's nothing wrong with being a loser, it just depends on how good you are at it. — Billie Joe Armstrong