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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 and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.
― Thomas Sowell
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If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!
Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
We economists don't know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can't sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you'll have a tomato shortage. It's the same with oil or gas.
There will be two types of businesses in the next 5 years, those that are on the Internet, and those that are out of business.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. ― Thomas Sowell
I think we have reached a stage now where we need to find solutions to economic injustice in the same place and in the same ways that we find solutions to sustainability. Sustainability on environmental grounds and justice in terms of everyone having a place in the production and consumption system - these are two aspects of the same issue. They have been artificially separated and have to be put back again in the Western way of thinking.
I firmly believe that the two most important times in a person's life are when they are born and when they find out why they were born.
Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.
Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.
