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May 31
“Centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow did not destroy the black family, but one generation of the welfare state did.”
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Thomas Sowell on programs aiming for equality:
“I’ve been doing studies now for 20 years of programs designed to increase equality—they increase inequality.”
“Because even when the programs are designed for disadvantaged groups, they help the affluent members of the disadvantaged groups, while the lower members of those groups fall further behind than ever before.”
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“Advice to the young: You don’t have to listen to anybody. You can learn everything from your own personal experience. Of course, you will be at least 50 years old by the time you know what you need to know at 25.”
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“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”
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Jun 12
“Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”
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Jun 12
“Partly what’s going on among professional politicians is that it can be the end of a whole career to admit that you were wrong.”
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Jun 12
“Inflation is a quiet but effective way for the government to transfer resources from the people to itself, without raising taxes.”
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Jun 11
Thomas Sowell on socialists’ attitude toward wealth.
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Jun 11
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
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Thomas Sowell on why educational standards have fallen in recent decades:
“The people who go into teaching are really the lowest level of college students.”
“If you look at the test scores of people who major in education, compared to people who major in history, science, or anything else virtually, they are at the bottom—and have been for something like half a century.”
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Jun 11
“If it were up to me, the age of adulthood would never have been lowered from 21 to 18. It would have been raised to 30. In recent decades, people have been taking longer and longer to mature—and increasing numbers never make it.”
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Jun 10
“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.”
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Jun 10
“The question is why there is wealth in the first place before we get into the question of how it’s distributed. Because if there’s no wealth, there’s nothing to distribute.”
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Jun 10
“Racism is not dead. But it is on life-support, kept alive mainly by the people who use it for an excuse or to keep minority communities fearful or resentful enough to turn out as a voting bloc on Election Day.”
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“We pay our public officials too much for what they are and too little for what we want them to be.”
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Thomas Sowell:
“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail.”
“In so far as they fail, they receive the money. In so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”
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“I cannot understand people who say that minorities should be represented everywhere and yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the conservative movement.”
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Caller: “You were a Marxist and then became a conservative. What influenced you?”
Sowell: “Working for the government.”
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“A careful definition of words would destroy half the agenda of the political left and scrutinizing evidence would destroy the other half.”
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“There is no greater indictment of judges than the fact that honest men are afraid to go into court, while criminals swagger out through its revolving doors.”
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“We are living in an era when sanity is controversial and insanity is just another viewpoint—and degeneracy only another lifestyle.”
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