Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Quote by Thomas Sowell
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
- Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
- The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
- People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
- 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.
- 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.
- Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
- 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.
- It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Best Quotes
- To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
- Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
- A man who goes to bed with an itching anus must surely wake up with a smelling fingers.
- Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
- Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
- You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
- Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.