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Problem 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…
- If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is…
- 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…
- 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…
- It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with 'solutions' to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the…
- The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
- People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and…
- The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a…
- Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
- Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be…
- 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…
- The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in…
- The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is;…
- Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result…
- In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other…
- It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's…
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