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World Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- 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 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…
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the…
- 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…
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
- Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial…
- In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and…
- 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…
- You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,…
- American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
- Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
- What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture…
- Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded…
- Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world…
- I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the…
- What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking…
- Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all…
- President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani