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EshaniKing: "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, or worse , benefit from being wrong" Thomas Sowell ( + slightly added to at end)
TheRedFishFry: Equity: The Thief of Human Potential - Thomas Sowell
BBookQuotes10: more than a third of Europe's land mass consists of islands and peninsulas, only 2 percent of Africa's land mass consists of islands andpeninsulas.
By Thomas Sowell
TenzinN61555528: "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
0victorem0: The Origin of Black American Culture and Ebonics | Thomas Sowell
CerebralWisdom: It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. - Thomas Sowell
moneytalkstweet: “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
EzraTerLinden: Well then, the great Thomas Sowell, seems again to be an oracle! Bless this man!
feeonline: “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
hilliard462: "What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. Insofar as they fail, they receive the money; insofar as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away."
~ Thomas Sowell
Unknownleadere: 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
PJSMART50: "What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. Insofar as they fail, they receive the money; insofar as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away." Thomas Sowell
feeonline: "Evidence is too dangerous—politically, financially and psychologically—for some people to allow it to become a threat to their interests or to their own sense of themselves.”
- Thomas Sowell
bebecamicaelle: “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
AlexsaurosRex: Equity: The Thief of Human Potential - Thomas Sowell
Kenyanewsbee: "Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest" - Thomas Sowell
MarshallLocke: “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
IamR0galD0rn: And as Thomas Sowell, and Rothbard, and Hayek all pointed out, this takes on average about 20 years. The standard split for 'generations'. You normalize it as the next generation is forming up. Normalize being the operative term.
This applies to everything from 'gay rights' to
AlanWolan: Our ability to fantasize and IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE is our most human trait. It's what distinguishes us from all other animals. This goes on non-stop from birth up until the moment you read your first Thomas Sowell book.
feeonline: “People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated.
What gets complex is evading the truth.”
- Thomas Sowell
SSPIKEY999: WOW! THOMAS SOWELL - FACTS ABOUT SLAVERY THEY DIDN'T TEACH IN SCHOOL!
goldfemur: Affirmative Action harms Black students by mismatching them with universities that exceed their capabilities. Admitted students who have test scores significantly lower than their peers are more likely to fail, drop out, or choose less competitive majors.
BBookQuotes10: There is a difference between discrimination and prejudice.
By Thomas Sowell
Athens108: My Friend REACTS To Thomas Sowell on Slavery -
BBookQuotes10: Social justice is often used to justify coercive government action
By Thomas Sowell
CerebralWisdom: A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. - Thomas Sowell
BBookQuotes10: Social justice is a political construct that has no generally agreed-upon definition
By Thomas Sowell
Kennytoto: I Introduced My Friend to The Red Pill | Thomas Sowell
LibertarianInst: Summary of Thomas Sowell's 'Black Rednecks and White Liberals'
PunishedPat1641: Hence why most of the based right-wingers, such as Thomas Sowell and Victor Davis Hanson, all shill for Israel. Some do it straight out, while others do it slyly, but all tactically know that they would lose their platform if they opposed Zionism.
AlanWolan: This summary is worth a listen. I drew on many of the ideas from this book in my episode about the "Will Smith Slap."
jcozart406: Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World - Full Video
maiamindel: Tessa Thompson as Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
khendriix_: Lewis Terman & Thomas Sowell on IQ & distribution curve of success.
khendriix_: Lewis Terman & Thomas Sowell on IQ & the distribution curve of success.
TioAbyss: “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
waylander_86: The utopianists who had no love for people, everyone from poor to rich, ordinary to extraordinary, will kill millions to achieve their ideals. That’s what happens when you lack that love.
Equity: The Thief of Human Potential - Thomas Sowell
CerebralWisdom: Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster. - Thomas Sowell
JunaSelf: Thomas Sowell Reveals Startling Historical Facts That Will Leave You Spe...
goldfemur: Thomas Sowell speaking facts on the second amendment
iluminatibot: "It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites." ~ Thomas Sowell
MurraySuggests: The basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose. -Thomas Sowell
AlanWolan: Tell me you've never listened to "The Genius of Thomas Sowell" podcast without actually saying "I've never listened to 'The Genius of Thomas Sowell' podcast.
rwybhalmsrbee4: “Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.” –Thomas Sowell
Rifleman4WVU: Politicians with the power to determine each citizen's income are no longer public servants. They are public masters" -Thomas Sowell
mderks27: Fantastic address by Kofi Montzka.
This is what Thomas Sowell has been writing about for decades.
jamesth62102148: WOW! THOMAS SOWELL - FACTS ABOUT SLAVERY THEY DIDN'T TEACH IN SCHOOL!
Biebermania1111: Joe Rogan is shocked to learn about Thomas Sowell's Wisdom
ADevotedYogi: "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
Curious_Grge: Thomas Sowell wrote about the damages this has on these kids long term, back in the 60’s (1960’s).
CerebralWisdom: If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. - Thomas Sowell
ancapquotes: "Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is." - Thomas Sowell
Unknownleadere: 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
DavidWDale3: It is racist. Period. Thomas Sowell. Walter Williams. Justice Thomas. Tim Scott. I could go on.
ullahkaleem9731: “The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.” –Thomas Sowell
rwybhalmsrbee4: “All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.” –Thomas Sowell
CerebralWisdom: Inflation is the most universal tax of all. - Thomas Sowell
EHUSMAN: Good one.
I’ll throw in “Women can’t do STEM”, “free markets are self-regulating”, and “Thomas Sowell is an underrated academic.”
Chesschick01: "If government spending with newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power." -Thomas Sowell
AndreaSimonsen4: “Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.” –Thomas Sowell
dayaneloveyou21: “It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.” –Thomas Sowell
MJPiazza2: I FINALLY found an affordable copy of Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics and now the package is running late. Typical.
HateNevrWorks: This is from the first year of Trump's presidency, but love what Mr. Sowell said about the leaders of groups that are lagging. It is very true!!
Thomas Sowell Reverses Position On Donald Trump
CerebralWisdom: Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. - Thomas Sowell
damudean: I was just watching a documentary of Thomas Sowell. It finished “It doesn’t matter how smart you are to you stop and think.”
I think I might start reading his work. He was/is a true great mind of the modern era.
coachrimmy: “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
…..Transformational coaches vs transactional coaches.
BBookQuotes10: Economists tend to rely on “revealed preference
By Thomas Sowell
NashvilleTea: Some day in the future, Thomas Sowell's genius will be widely recognized. Until then, we can all enjoy being the small minority that sees his brilliance TODAY.
wil_da_beast630: Thomas Sowell was the original "be multivariate" guy.
Last I looked, the poverty rate was 7% for children in married Black families, and 22% for the children of Caucasian single moms.
yaf: Thomas Sowell explains how the left uses false assumptions to make arguments: "Once they've seen something that fits their conception of how the world works, that's sort of the end of it."
NduatiMwangi001: “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest” ~Thomas Sowell
BankableInsight: The real minimum wage is zero. - Thomas Sowell
TakesTaurus: Do yourself a favor and read some Thomas Sowell.
Haywire1970: THOMAS SOWELL DO YOU THINK THE GOVERNMENT HAS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ...
QueuballMark: Thomas Sowell: Vision of the Woke
rwybhalmsrbee4: “I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” –Thomas Sowell
LPBexar: “The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.”
― Thomas Sowell
wil_da_beast630: As a note, my Thomas Sowell lecture series starts next month, as a prep for next semester's Sowell class.
We'll probably do free recorded Zoom rooms - advertised beforehand - for anyone interested. Takers?
CerebralWisdom: 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
brucekodish: Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World
JimMurp77852985: Thomas Sowell shares common sense that doesn't seem very common.
Y0K0S0N: Thomas Sowell grew up in the ghettos of NY by the way. And he is black.
kuye_ade: Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off. - Thomas Sowell
ebugos: I liked Sowell's take on the straw man held up by haters, commies, politicians, and other dishonest interests seeking reparations even today. Was the West Built on Slavery? (An Economic Analysis) | Thomas Sowell
utagro: In awe of Thomas Sowell‘s writing: „[…] specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.“
utagro: Different ways of knowing - Here‘s Thomas Sowell‘s list:
allenmendenhall: Here in California with the great Brian Smith, Andrew D. Graham, and Rachel Ferguson for a Liberty Fund colloquium on Thomas Sowell.
SeanDW175: My Friend REACTS To Thomas Sowell on Slavery
HumanDesignLife: It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.~Thomas Sowell
AlanWolan: Just got the first batch of acrylic Thomas Sowell lapel pins:
"Who is Thomas Sowell?"
Great conversation starter!
1 pin free with any order of 4 or more Post It Note pads...
Today and tomorrow only (quantities are limited, order link in profile).
CerebralWisdom: Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward. - Thomas Sowell
awokeb0t: "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." ~ Thomas Sowell
Harsha_Sayings: The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
~ Thomas Sowell 9/n
DeonraWalton: Thomas Sowell and Jordan Peterson said AMERICANS are BRAINWASHED!
93vintagejones: But progressives, who tend to have what Thomas Sowell called ‘an unconstrained vision’ of man’s potential, believe that this is the rule of the dead over the living and think that that cumulative wisdom - since it came from less learned ages - less important than today’s truth.
Joaquin75372275: There is no cure all for problems in life, economics, or politics,...there is just trade offs to paraphrase Thomas Sowell.
CerebralWisdom: People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. - Thomas Sowell
ThomasRotthier: "The president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is said to have asked British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: “How do you see to it that people get food?” The answer was that she didn’t."
- Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics (2015)
TheRabbitHole84: The absurdity of Kendi’s statements comes at a time when a black man, Thomas Sowell, is a popular intellectual amongst libertarians and conservatives.
Intellectualism has a bias against dumb people, not Blacks.
GoodAMLiberty: “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.”
- Thomas Sowell
