Thursday, May 30, 2024

Thomas Sowell

  • Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education & emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.
  • Unions are for unions, not their workers.
  • No society ever thrived because it had a large & growing class of parasites living off those who produce.
Q: If you get rid of the federal reserve what do you replace it with?
  • When someone removes a cancer what do you replace it with?

  • The cold fact is that income is not distributed: It is earned. — The Vision of the Anointed (p.211)
  • The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
  • Racism is not dead, but it is on life support – kept alive by politicians, race hustlers & people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'.
  • Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
  • If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools & make excuses for their academic shortcomings & personal misbehavior. But plese don't congratulate yourself on your compassion.
  • 1 of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before & proved disastrous before, time & again.
  • As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitatianism--unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.
  • No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected & re-elected are number 1 & number 2. Whatever is number 3 is far behind.
  • Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.