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Thomas Sowell Quotes

American - Economist | June 30, 1930 -

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Education Isolation Reality Too Much

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

Vision Mistakes Facts Attention Will

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

Politics Economics Rich Political

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.

Black Over Noble Generations Leaders

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

You Nothing Understand Will Never

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

Political America You More Need

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Football Baseball Game Generation

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

Someone Way Happen Because Happened

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.

Technology Class Top Students Bottom

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.

Power Society Warm Help Hands More

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.

War Present Brainy Results Brilliant

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Life Government Tax Savings Without

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