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As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do not hesitate to make sweeping pronouncements about the economy in general, businesses in particular, and the many issues revolving around what is called ‘income distribution’ (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber. Anyone of similar ability and drive would have gone somewhere else, instead of waiting in the wings for years for a chance to show his own leadership (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
People who believe in ‘universal health care’ show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, ‘universal health care’ in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it, politicians have now moved on into micro-managing automobile companies and medical care. They are not going to stop unless they get stopped. And that is not going to happen until the voters recognize the fact that political rhetoric is no substitute for competence (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama’s style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world’s largest banana republic? (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
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. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
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 back to them flamboyantly. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don’t make bad decisions based on empathy. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton’s presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little he is, despite all his big talk. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)
Price controls almost invariably produce black markets, where prices are not only higher than the legally permitted prices, but also higher than they would be in a free market, since the legal risks must also be compensated. While small-scale black markets may function in secrecy, large-scale black markets usually require bribes to officials to look the other way. (Thomas Sowell Quotes)