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Whole Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- 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…
- 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…
- In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
- Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop…
- Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the…
- Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower…
- The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura…
- 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…
- Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda…
- Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that ……
More Whole Quotes
- A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what… — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain… — Karen Armstrong
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two… — David Attenborough
- The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to… — David Attenborough
- The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that… — Chinua Achebe
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma… — Margaret Atwood
- Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — Wystan Hugh Auden