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Vision Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
- 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 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…
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- 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…
- Ronald Reagan had a vision of America...Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
- 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…
- Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.
- The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that…
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
- Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.
- Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is…
- One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
- Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
- Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
- Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study…
More Vision Quotes
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain
- From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good.… — Barbara Olson
- The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine
- We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch