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
school college people
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
people way wealth
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
order movement economy
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
government saving hyperinflation
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
ghetto race poverty
Those who automatically say that the social pathology of the ghetto is due to poverty discrimination and the like cannot explain why such pathology was far less prevalent in the 1950s, when poverty and discrimination were worse. But there were not nearly as many grievance mongers and race hustlers then.
gratitude generosity guilt
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.
country government affordable-housing
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.
compassion politician welfare
Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.
leader political mirages
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
expression promise noble
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
disappointment regret persistence
We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
strong men wrath
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
nannies planning states
Central planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
people responsible made
Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.