“Nothing is easier, or more
emotionally satisfying, than
blaming high prices on those who
charge them, rather than on
those who cause them.”
—Thomas Sowell
“One of the sad signs of our times is that
we have demonized those who produce,
subsidized those who refuse to produce,
and canonized those who complain. “
Thomas Sowell
“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
What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?
- Thomas Sowell
“The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of liberals expansion of the welfare state.”
-Thomas Sowell
I knew people like Sgt Gordon who pretended to be buddies while they were bad mouthing you and others. I wonder if Gordon ended up in Korea?
“Sowell knew Sergeant Gordon, the nice one, had overheard him asking for permission to leave the base. Gordon denied having heard anything, and told Sowell, “You’re just going to have to take your punishment like a man.” Gordon fretted that if he crossed the higher-ups, he would be reassigned to fight in Korea.
But unasked, Sergeant Pachuki came forward and spoke with the colonel, explaining the situation. As a result, Sowell was exonerated and returned back to his duties.
Referring to Gordon, the “nice” sergeant who betrayed him, Sowell writes, “People who are everybody’s friend usually means they are nobody’s friend.”
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Like global warming or covid etc.
“What I most disliked about Harvard was that smug assumptions were too often treated as substitutes for evidence or logic. The idea seemed to be that if we bright and good fellows all believed something, it must be true.”
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Thomas Sowell writes that before he was scheduled to debate Kenneth Arrow (Nobel prize-winning economist), someone asked him if he was nervous because Arrow was so smart. Sowell replied “I don’t mind debating smart people. It’s debating stupid people that’s hard.”
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The seventeenth-century Spanish philosopher Baltasar Gracián wrote:
“Twice the wit is needed to deal with someone with none.”