"It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."
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Thomas Sowell, born on June 30, 1930, in Gastonia, North Carolina, is a renowned economist, social theorist, and author, celebrated for his incisive commentary on race, economics, and social policy. A former fellow at the Hoover Institution, Sowell’s extensive body of work, including influential books like "Basic Economics" and "Black Rednecks and White Liberals," challenges prevailing narratives and encourages critical thinking. His legacy as a leading intellectual figure continues to inspire debates on freedom, individual responsibility, and the complexities of social issues.
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"If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly."
Thomas Sowell
"Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
Thomas Sowell
"One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."
Thomas Sowell"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."
Thomas Sowell"Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
Thomas Sowell
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
Thomas Sowell
"The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state."
Thomas Sowell
"Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government."
Thomas Sowell"Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all."
Thomas Sowell"Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing."
Thomas Sowell"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
Thomas Sowell
"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
Thomas Sowell"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."
Thomas Sowell
"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."
Thomas Sowell"Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society."
Thomas Sowell
"Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination."
Thomas Sowell