Thursday, November 04, 2021

Thomas Sowell Quotes

 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.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together.

Watching CNN after watching Fox News Network is like drinking skim milk after you have gotten used to egg nog.

One of these days the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals may declare the Constitution unconstitutional.

Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

While it is true that you learn with age, the down side is that what you learn is often what a damn fool you were before.

Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.

To too many teachers, social workers and others in occupations with pretensions of being "professional", what being a professional means is not having to listen to common sense from ordinary people, much less develop any of their own.

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