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I am very, very impressed by Thomas Sowell. When it comes to the subject matter on which he speaks I don’t know anyone who comes close to him. I think he is the most profound intellectual of our age. I very highly recommend viewing the Thomas Sowell videos on this page. I have found them very, very enlightening on a great many things.
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“The vision of the anointed is one in which ills such as poverty, irresponsible sex and crime derive primarily from “society” rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
Thomas Sowell
If there is any place in the Guinness Book of World Records for words repeated the most often, over the most years, without one speck of evidence, ‘diversity’ should be the prime candidate. Is diversity our strength? Or anybody’s strength, anywhere in the world? It has not been our diversity, but our ability to overcome the problems inherent in diversity, and to act together as Americans that has been our strength.
Thomas Sowell
Do people who advocate special government programs for blacks realize that the federal government has had special programs for Indians, including affirmative action, since the early nineteenth century — and that American Indians remain one of the few groups worse off than blacks?
Thomas Sowell
Four letter words like love, duty, work, and save are hallmarks of people ..... who make their way through life without being a part of some grandiose scheme of the anointed or of government bureaucracies that administer such schemes.
Thomas Sowell
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas Sowell
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
Thomas Sowell
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Thirty of Thomas Sowell’s best quotes:
1 “Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.”
2 “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
3 “In other words, evidence is too dangerous—politically, financially and psychologically—for some people to allow it to become a threat to their interests or to their own sense of themselves.”
4 “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”
5 “Some things must be done on faith, but the most dangerous kind of faith is that which masquerades as ‘science.’”
6 “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
7 “Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.”
8 “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.”
9 “Open-ended demands are a mandate for ever-expanding government bureaucracies with ever-expanding budgets and powers.”
10 “I have never understood why it is ‘greed’ to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
11 “Back in my old neighborhood, there was a special contempt for the kind of guy who was always trying to get two other guys to fight each other. Today, it is considered a great contribution to society to incite consumers against producers, tenants against landlords, women against men, and the races against each other.”
12 “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
13 “The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.’”
14 “The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
15 “Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
16 “The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
17 “Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.”
18 “If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
19 “Those who cry out that the government should ‘do something’ never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.”
20 “It is not money but the volume of goods and services which determines whether a country is poverty stricken or prosperous.”
21 “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
22 “Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green [the color of money]; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.”
23 “The biggest and most deadly ‘tax’ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up.”
24 “But life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.”
25 “Continuing transactions between buyer and seller make sense only if value is subjective, each getting what is worth more subjectively. Economic transactions are not a zero-sum process, where one person loses whatever the other person gains.”
26 “Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.”
27 “The real minimum wage is zero.”
28 “If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”
29 “It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.”
30 “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
Following are some of Dr. Thomas Sowell’s favorite quotes:
...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.
—David Ricardo 1
The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.
—Paul Johnson 2
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
—T. S. Eliot 3
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
—Edmund Burke 4
...you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other men's approval.
—Nicholas Flood Davis 5
If I could think that I had sent a spark to those who come after I should be ready to say Goodbye.
—Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes 6
We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.
—F. A. Hayek 7
You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right.
—Lyndon B. Johnson 8
The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.
—Joseph A. Schumpeter 9
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
—Will and Ariel Durant 10
Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality.
—William R. Allen 11
The task of weaning various people and groups from the national nipple will not be easy. The sound of whines, bawls, screams and invective will fill the air as the agony of withdrawal pangs finds voice.
—Linda Bowles 12
This war was a revolution against the moral basis of civilization. It was conceived by the Nazis in conscious contempt for the life, dignity and freedom of individual man and deliberately prosecuted by means of slavery, starvation and the mass destruction of noncombatants' lives. It was a revolution against the human soul.
—Time, May 14, 1945 13
The gods mercifully gave mankind this little moment of peace between the religious fanaticisms of the past and the fanaticisms of class and race that were speedily to arise and dominate time to come.
—G. M. Trevelyan 14
Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.
—Dinesh D'Souza 15
Everybody has asked the question. . ."What shall we do with the Negro?" I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature's plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!
—Frederick Douglass 16
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
—C. S. Lewis 17
...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent...
—Adam Smith 18
Examine the records of history, recollect what has happened within the circle of your own experience, consider with attention what has been the conduct of almost all the greatly unfortunate, either in private or public life, whom you may have either read of, or hear of, or remember, and you will find that the misfortunes of by far the greater part of them have arisen from their not knowing when they were well, when it was proper for them to set still and to be contented.
—Adam Smith 19
The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.
—Eric Hoffer 20
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. For an achievement does not settle anything permanently. We still have to prove our worth anew each day: we have to prove that we are as good today as we were yesterday. But when we have a valid alibi for not achieving anything we are fixed, so to speak, for life.
—Eric Hoffer 21
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will.
—Eric Hoffer 22
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
—Eric Hoffer 23
Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.
—Eric Hoffer 24
From my earliest childhood I have been toiling & wearing my heart out for other people, who took all I could do & suffer for them as no more than their just dues.
—John Randolph 25
. . .time misspent and faculties mis-employed, and senses jaded by labor, or impaired by excess, cannot be recalled any more than that freshness of the heart, before it has become aware of the deceits of others, and of its own.
—John Randolph 26
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
—Jean-Baptiste Say 27
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
—Edgar Lee Masters 28
N O T E S
1 The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, Vol. VII, p. 372.
2 Paul Johnson, The Quotable Paul Johnson: A Topical Compilation of His Wit, Wisdom and Satire, edited by George J. Marlin, et al (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994), p. 138.
3 T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party, (London: Faber and Faber, 1974), p. 111.
4 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 249.
5 Nicholas Flood Davis, The Irishman in Canada, p. vii.
6 Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Mind and Faith of Justice Holmes, edited by Max Lerner (New York: Modern Library), p. 451.
7 Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1972)
8 Robert L. Hardesty, The Johnson Years: The Difference He Made (Austin: Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1993), p. 181.
9 Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 43n.
10 Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, p. 101.
11 William R. Allen, "Bunnie Rabbit, Winnie, and the Grand Plan," California Political Review, Winter 1993, p. 13.
12 Linda Bowles, "The Weaning Process, " Washington Times, December 20, 1994, p. A16.
13 Time, May 14, 1945, p. 17.
14 G. M. Trevelyan, English Social History, p. 354.
15 Dinesh D'Souza, The End of Racism: Principles for a Multiracial Society (New York: The Free Press, 1995), p. 554.
16 Frederick Douglass, "What the Black Man Wants," Negro Social and Political Thought 1850-1920: Representative Texts, edited by Howard Brotz (New York: Basic Books, Inc. 1962), p. 283.
17 C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock (Grand Rapids: W.B. Eerdmans,2002), p. 292.
18 Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, p. 170.
19 Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, p. 252.
20 Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, p. 107.
21 Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, p. 181.
22 Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time, p. 83.
23 Eric Hoffer, First Things, Last Things, p. 65.
24 Eric Hoffer, First Things, Last Things, p. 71.
25 John Randolph, Collected Letters of John Randolph of Roanoke to Dr. John Brockenbrough, 1812-1833, edited by Kenneth Shorey (New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Books, 1988), p. 124
26 John Randolph, Collected Letters of John Randolph of Roanoke to Dr. John Brockenbrough: 1812-1833, edited by Kenneth Shorey (New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Books, 1988), p. 53
27 Jeam-Baptiste Say, An Economist in Troubled Times: Writings Selected and Translated by R. R. Palmer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 154.
28 Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p.87.
Source: 30 Priceless Quotes from the Great Thomas Sowell ______________________________________________________________________________
Lying. Lying is a fact of life. People lie. High officials lie. Heads of state lie. Powerful people lie. Politicians lie. Political activists lie.
Partisans of political ideologies lie. Marxists lie. They twist, distort and hid facts to support their own false dogmas, their own false narratives. They present great sounding ideas that simply don’t work.
Political parties lie. They present to their constituents carefully devised narratives that will please them (and certainly not narratives that will antagonize them or make them angry). They distort, misrepresent, disguise, exaggerate, and hid information to support their own false narratives, their own lies. The targets of their lies are poorly educated masses whose prime interests in life are food, sex, alcohol, drugs, and other forms of pleasure — people who are not critical thinkers, not intellectually inclined, and not scrupulous about Truth. Why do these political tricksters prefer lying to truth? For their own gain, their own benefit. For votes. Lies are better received by their constituents than the truth. Lies bring votes. Lies bring political power.
Modern leftist liberalism is based in lie and lives by lie. All of the modern political correctness and gay-friendly western outlooks are based in lie. Our entire modern, western world is based in lie.
The liberal outlooks and attitudes of the modern West has consequences. The trend against marriage and toward “just living together” has consequences. Every child deserves to be raised in a home by his parents — by married parents. People who have illegitimate children are doing these children a great wrong. See People are like plants --- they grow up healthy and strong in a healthy environment . The wrong outlooks, attitudes, values, and ways of our modern western world bring social pathologies. Sexual molestation of children is a big, big problem in this society. Huge numbers of children are being traumatized and are irreparably damaged. Young lives are ruined. Mixed up, confused, misled young people become victims of sexual exploitation. See US Is a Top Destination for Child Sex Trafficking, and It’s Happening in Your Community. Confused, unhappy children and bad schools lead to gangs and crime. Youth gangs lead into organized crime. Crime affects society.
Messed up children develop into confused, mixed up adults. Confused, messed up adults produce confused, messed up children — producing a vicious cycle.
Pornography has consequences. People follow sex and licentiousness and move from partner to partner through their life and never find true happiness. Atheism and agnosticism are not good bases for a healthy society. Purposelessness and spiritual and moral emptiness lead to alcohol and drug abuse.
Belief in God, faith in God. Christianity. Christian values. That is the base for a good society.
Modern western man has lost his sense, lost his way. He doesn’t know how to live life. He has rejected God and chosen Satan. That choice affects him in this life. It will affect him in a far more profound way in the life that is to come.
See the following:
How Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ruined The Western Philosophy of Liberty Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell is Back Again to Discuss His Book Wealth, Poverty, and Politics
Uncommon Knowledge with Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell: This is why the left only focuses on race
Thomas Sowell to Levin on America today: 'Real danger'
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Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
In the above video Thomas Sowell discusses two very basic social assumptions which explain the differences between liberals and conservatives. They are what he calls the Constrained vision and the Unconstrained vision. They represent two very different assumptions underlying the way liberals and conservatives think.
Constrained vision: The constrained vision “sees the evils of the world as deriving from the limited and unhappy choices available, given the inherent moral and intellectual limitations of human beings.” The constrained vision understands itself as constrained by the limitations of reality itself. In other words, one cannot proceed as so many do to contend that good things happen automatically but bad things are somebodies fault. For the amelioration of ... [the human condition, the constrained vision relies on] certain social processes such as moral traditions, the marketplace, or families.” Not government.
Peter Robinson: So explain that. Why do we rely on processes rather than the will of the people instituting changes to improve our condition? Thomas Sowell: Well, it doesn’t ignore government. Even for the market to work you have to have a government as Europe discovered when the Roman Empire collapsed and the economy collapsed also. But I guess one of the reasons would be that with the government you have surrogate decision makers and they cannot possibly know as much as the individuals whose personal decisions have been preempted.
Unconstrained vision: When Rousseau said that “man is born free” but “is everywhere in chains,” he expressed the essence of the unconstrained vision, in which the fundamental problem is not nature or man but institutions.” Robinson: Would you explain that one? Sowell: Well, he has the notion that, again, good things happen naturally and bad things because institutions including civilization itself have made these bad things happen. And I think that that’s really the implicit assumption behind a lot of things that are said on the left today. And why in my most recent book I go to a lot of trouble to show that in nature there is nothing even resembling equal opportunity. That wherever you look around the country, around the world, you find people who live up in the mountains poor and backwards, even in the richest countries, even in the United States. I believe that the poorest county in the United States, was in a mountain community, which was almost 100% white. Somewhere in Appalachia, West Virginia. And men in that county had a life expectancy 10 years less than men in a county in Virginia. Robinson: And the unconstrained vision says let’s fix that. Surely we can pass a law that would improve that and the constrained vision says well now wait a moment if people who live in isolated pockets in mountains are poor and backwards all around the world and we see this pattern over and over again, maybe there is something very deeply rooted in reality about that that is hard for us to get at.
My comment: Man is a flawed being — a deeply flawed being with all kinds of perverse inclinations. Pride, greed, hatred, envy, deceit, lying, lust, etc. are facts of life. You cannot create a perfect society, or anything close to it, when your building blocks are deeply flawed beings. You can’t get around it with laws and social programs. You just get a lot of foolishness and squandering of money and resources. This is the constrained view.
See the following:
YouTube Thomas Sowell The origins of Woke
YouTube The Biggest Lie About Slavery | Thomas Sowell
YouTube Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality Hoover Institution
YouTube Thomas Sowell on the Failures in American Education. FULL UNCUT INTERVIEW Basic Economics
YouTube The REAL reason why Asians are more successful than Westerners
I recommend reading the comments on this one.
The Origin of the Left's War on White People in America Thomas Sowell
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Discrimination and Disparities with Thomas Sowell Hoover Institution
Thomas Sowell Common Sense in a Senseless World
The vision of the anointed — with Thomas Sowell (1995) | THINK TANK
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Thomas Sowell and a Conflict of Visions
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How 'Redneck Pride' Shaped the History of the American South | Thomas Sowell
Redneck Poverty: Why Southern Whites Were Poorer Than Northerners in the US? | Thomas Sowell
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How White Southerners Lagged Behind Northerners in Education | Thomas Sowell
The Dangers of Economic Fallacies | Thomas Sowell
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The Truth About the American Founding Fathers Owning Slaves | Thomas Sowell
The Unspoken Truth About Slavery | Thomas Sowell
Is Equality Even Possible? (A Scientific & Historical Analysis) | Thomas Sowell
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The Surprising Contributions of Germans Throughout History | Thomas Sowell
Unique Ways in Which German Immigrants Preserved Their Culture Around the World | Thomas Sowell
Facts about Germans never taught in School | Thomas Sowell
How Germans Dominated Eastern Europe | Thomas Sowell
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The Tragic End Of Germans In The Soviet Union
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The Ticking Time Bomb That Doomed The Soviet Union | Thomas Sowell
From Poverty to Powerhouse: Japan's Post-War Success
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Facts about slavery never mentioned in school | Thomas Sowell
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Differences Between the Islamic and Western Slave Trade | Thomas Sowell
Why Europeans Colonized the Americas | Thomas Sowell
What People Don't Realize About America | Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell - The Deterioration of American Schools
The Rise And Fall Of The Black Community In The United States
Thomas Sowell w/ Rush Limbaugh "Right Direction" Full Feature!
The Deceptive War on the 2nd Amendment | Thomas Sowell
What Woke Intellectuals Get Wrong | Thomas Sowell
Affirmative Action: Who does it really help? | Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell - Affirmative Action
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Healthcare: What Politicians Don't Want You To Know
Thomas Sowell -- Basic Economics
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The Failure of Woke Policies (From 'The Great Society' to Present Day) | Thomas Sowell
How the US Lost the 'War on Poverty' | Thomas Sowell
How Woke Legal Policies Failed | Thomas Sowell
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How Politicians Escape Economic Reality | Thomas Sowell
Why 'Fairness' is Impossible | Thomas Sowell
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The test of a person's Christianity is what he is
Ninety five percent of the problems that most people have come from personal foolishness
Liberalism, socialism and the modern welfare state
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We are what we eat --- living under the discipline of a diet
Avoiding problems and trouble in life
Role of habit in formation of character
Personal attributes of the true Christian
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Love of God and love of virtue are closely united
Intellectual disparities among people and the power in good habits
Tools of Satan. Tactics and Tricks used by the Devil.
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Wisdom, Reason and Virtue are closely related
Knowledge is one thing, wisdom is another
My views on Christianity in America
The most important thing in life is understanding
We are all examples --- for good or for bad
Television --- spiritual poison
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Sin is serious business. The punishment for it is real. Hell is real.
Self-imposed discipline and regimentation
Achieving happiness in life --- a matter of the right strategies
Self-control, self-restraint, self-discipline basic to so much in life