Quotes and insights from Thomas Sowell and other economists. Clear thinking on economics, liberty, and real-world trade-offs.
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Jun 10
"While to the Nazi the communist, and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits who are made of the right timber...they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom."~Hayek
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"We must hate - hatred is the basis for communism...Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not communists."~Lenin
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Bernie Sanders' logic taken to its logical extreme: All businesses use public roads that were created by all of us. Therefore, at any time the Priesthood of Class Warfare decides, it can appropriate any business's property.
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May 20
"The replacement of human muscle by machine power, and the growing importance of industries and occupations not dependent on either, have made sex differences and age differences no longer as significant as they had once been."~Thomas Sowell
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"The view that the utilization of a fortune, no matter what size, is solely the private affair of the individual requires to be corrected...in the National Socialist state...without the contribution of the community, no individual would... enjoy such an advantage." —Hitler (1936)
May 8
Fine. Just as long as they acknowledge that much of what made them rich came from public goods and public investment. That gives them a moral obligation to pay significant taxes.
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By 1920, Lenin's secret police (Cheka) was executing people on a mass scale during the Red Terror, with estimates suggesting hundreds to thousands of deaths per month.
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A monkey hoarding bananas is not the same as an entrepreneur creating value. One takes from a pile; the other enlarges it. If that distinction is unclear, that may be the real thing worth studying.
If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what was wrong with it.
When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes.
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Apr 25
Hasan Piker is another in a long line of privileged, wealthy sociopaths who want to run your life: Marx, Engels, Lenin, Pol Pot, Mao, Trotsky, Castro, Guevara, Mamdani, and Abimael Guzmán.
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"For freedom and equality are sworn and everlasting enemies, and when one prevails the other dies. Leave men free, and their natural inequalities will multiply almost geometrically, as in England and America in the nineteenth century under laissez-faire."~Will Durant
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Feb 27
"We will not open or operate retail stores in California...
California has created one of the most overregulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America."~Marcus Lemonis, Executive Chairman of Bed Bath & Beyond
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Jan 24
"Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all—inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable."— Thomas Sowell
#Sowell #inequality #ThomasSowell
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Jan 11
"Expecting government to promote "fairness" is just giving politicians more arbitrary power."~Thomas Sowell
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"most blacks had become better educated and had lifted themselves out of poverty at a rate higher than after the civil rights revolution of the 1960s."~Thomas Sowell
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30 Dec 2025
"Indeed, non-Western peoples have thought so little about freedom that most human languages did not even possess a word for the concept before contact with the West."~Orlando Patterson
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29 Dec 2025
"The central doctrine of multiculturalism--the equality of cultures--cannot be sustained when that means equality of concrete achievements--educationally, economically, or otherwise."~Thomas Sowell
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24 Dec 2025
There is a lot of over-the-top rhetoric about affordability. Keep in mind the share of disposable income spent on food at home is at an all-time low.
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24 Dec 2025
Hayek would note that traditions like gift-giving persist for reasons not everyone fully understands. Giving a gift sends a different signal about the person giving the gift than simply one who gives cash.
22 Dec 2025
This holiday season, remember what economics teaches us:
Giving gifts is an inefficient act and you should give cash instead!
Merry Christmas!
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22 Dec 2025
Part of the decline in manufacturing employment is a statistical artifact. Employees who handle the computer programming and design of manufactured goods are not counted as manufacturing workers but as service-sector employees.
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22 Dec 2025
The appeal of socialism can stem from: 1) envy and resentment of others’ success and good fortune, 2) zero-sum thinking—that one person’s gain is another’s loss, and 3) the mistaken belief that the cooperative nature of the family can be extended and scaled to govern society.
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21 Dec 2025
"Throughout the North during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, stable two-parent black families were overwhelmingly the rule, as indeed they were in the South as well. The "broken home" and other ghetto patterns developed later."~Thomas Sowell
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