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Thomas Sowell Quotes


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.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The real minimum wage is zero.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

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.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.