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Other Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions.
- Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
- The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people…
- The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
- [A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise…
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all…
- Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
- 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…
- Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking everyone to pay…
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- As an economist, whenever I hear the word shortage I wait for the other shoe to drop. That other shoe is usually price control.
- What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
- A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
- Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in…
- People who believe in evolution in biology often believe in creationism in government. In other words, they believe that the universe and all the creatures…
- Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign…
- Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you…
- The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that…
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
- Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour