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Thomas Sowell Quotes
«Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.»
«Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of that undermine most of the agenda of the political left.»
«Back in the 1970s, the hysteria was about global cooling and the prospect of a new ice age. A National Academy of Sciences report back then led Science magazine to conclude in its March 1, 1975, issue that a long 'ice age is a real possibility.'According to the April 28, 1975, issue of Newsweek , 'the earth's climate seems to be cooling down.' A note of urgency was part of the global cooling hysteria then as much as it is part of today's global warming hysteria. According to the February, 1973, issue of Science Digest, 'Once the freeze starts, it will be too late'.»
«The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same acti»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Chosen The, contemporary, Liberals, voluntarily
«Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| Keywords:
forties, in particular, retrieve, Retrieving, threw, twenties
«Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced to resort to food stamps.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
enlist, enlisted, Food stamps, lag, lagged, lagging, lags, military force, resort
«To include freedom in the... definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics... but by its hoped for results.»
«The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Economics,
Government
| Keywords:
monolith, personified, personify, public interest, The Public Interest
«Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an earlier era, they are replaced by people ignorant of those times and therefore easy targets for demagogues.»