Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowellis an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 June 1930
CityGastonia, NC
CountryUnited States of America
mouths taxpayers donate
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
running country government
The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.
organization people leader
It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements.
desire different desire-to-live
However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
demand would-be shortage
A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.
faces conservative liberalism
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
people might today
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
engineering knowledgeable-person political
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left.
believe people facts
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
mean winning order
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else, in order to gain campaign contributions and win votes.
cost easy persist
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
military men careers
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.
leader soul black
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
running common-decency barbarians
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?