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Thomas Sowell Inspirational Quotes (306)

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The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
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The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
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The talkers and writers resent being left on the sidelines by the doers.
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Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
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What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.
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It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do what matters it doesnt matter what you do.
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Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.
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In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
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What freedom does a starving man have? The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.
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What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials.
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Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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The government is indeed an institution, but the market is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love.
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When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup.
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You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.
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Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
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Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.
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