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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ― Thomas Sowell
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Business
Stupid
Government
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ― Thomas Sowell
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Diversity
Important
Liberty
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists' ― Thomas Sowell
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Race
Racism
People
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
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Helping Others
Truth
Lying
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice. ― Thomas Sowell
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Giving
Justice
Vote
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for? ― Thomas Sowell
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Share
Fairs
Exactly Is
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. ― Thomas Sowell
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Welfare
States
Good Intentions
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. ― Thomas Sowell
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Stupid
Ideas
Important
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? ― Thomas Sowell
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Country
Weather
Foundation
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. ― Thomas Sowell
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Jobs
School
Men
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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Two
Numbers
Political
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.' ― Thomas Sowell
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Thinking
Class
Issues
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all. ― Thomas Sowell
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Believe
Mean
Gay
In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity. ― Thomas Sowell
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Mass Destruction
Running
Long
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion. ― Thomas Sowell
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Self Improvement
Believe
People
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. ― Thomas Sowell
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President
Liberty
Complaining
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president ― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Quotes
Country
Home
America
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason. ― Thomas Sowell
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Education
Years
People
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. ― Thomas Sowell
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People
Discrimination
Equal Treatment
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity. ― Thomas Sowell
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Teacher
Children
Teaching
Stupidity
Artificial