Tag: Thomas Sowell
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
Thomas Sowell
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
Thomas Sowell
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The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals’ expansion of the welfare state.
Thomas Sowell
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
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Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
Thomas Sowell
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Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Thomas Sowell
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All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians’ warning that correlation is not causation.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Thomas Sowell
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What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell
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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.
Thomas Sowell