Thomas Sowell Quotes

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Thomas Sowell

Before, Born, Late

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Talk, Since, Doers

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
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Mean, Rise, Taken

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?
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Tomorrow, Country, Why

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Accept, Force, Prepared

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.
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Real, Free, Themselves

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
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Strong, Control, Gun

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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Technology, Science, Often

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
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Human, Face, Liberalism

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
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Today, Made, America

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Best, Question, Shall

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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Productive, Favor, Holding

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
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Accounting, Seem, Likely

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.
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Mistakes, Attention, Vision

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.
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Blame, Down, Cannot

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
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Money, Often, Themselves

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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State, Welfare, Masses

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Work, Time, Hands

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.
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Game, Football, Baseball

The real minimum wage is zero.
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Real, Wage, Zero

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'
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Racism, Put, Makes

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.
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Speak, Against, Themselves

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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Education, Reality, Isolation

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
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Power, Society, Help

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

Battle, Win, Down

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Nationality: American

Type: Economist

Born: July 30, 1930

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