Enjoy the best Thomas Sowell Quotes. Quotations by Thomas Sowell (American Economist and Social Theorist)
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Reality is a hard taskmaster.
If you want to help people, tell them the truth. If you want to help yourself, tell them what they want to hear.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Freedom is not free. It must be defended by every generation.
Competition is the best way to ensure quality and lower prices.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs.
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.
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are more important than values.
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.
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.