The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Quote by Thomas Sowell
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
- 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.
- In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
- Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
- People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
- Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
- Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
- 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.
- 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.
- People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
Best Quotes
- Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Anything that isn't opposed by about 40 percent of humanity is either an evil business or so unimportant that it simply doesn't matter.
- Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
- No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
- I spend a lot of time reading.
- Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.
- The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it.
- I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
- I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.
- The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.