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One 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…
- One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those…
- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
- No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own…
- What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting…
- 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…
- Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the…
- The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices…
- In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the…
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- 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…
- One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we agree with it…
- One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something…
- Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
- When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was…
- Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for…
- You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,…
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
- Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that "there are noneconomic values"…
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