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
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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?
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.