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Some 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…
- The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it…
- In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.
- 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.…
- Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything…
- When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government intervention.
- 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…
- It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence…
- Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting…
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
- To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
- Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
- One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it…
- The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
- What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid…
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a…
- Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring…
- 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…
- Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
- Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
- Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to…
- 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…
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong