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It isn't fashionable to talk about the blessings of this country in this politically correct time of complaint and condemnation. But, if we ever forget these blessings — or let them erode because we have become fat, dumb and happy — we will learn the hard way what blessings we…

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 9, 2024

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What can we be certain of from history? That human beings have been wrong innumerable times, by vast amounts, and with catastrophic results. Yet today there are still people who think that anyone who disagrees with them must be either bad or not know what he is talking about.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 9, 2024

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Put bluntly, failure attracts more money than success. Politically, failure becomes a reason to demand more money, smaller classes, and more trendy courses and programs, ranging from "black English" to bilingualism and "self-esteem." Politicians who want to look compassionate and…

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 8, 2024

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Those who say that all cultures are equal never explain why the results of those cultures are so grossly unequal.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 7, 2024

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Instead of trying to propagandize children to hug trees and recycle garbage, our schools would be put to better use teaching them how to analyze and test what is said by people who advocate tree-hugging, recycling, and innumerable other causes across the political spectrum.

The…

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 6, 2024

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Much confusion comes from judging economic policies by the goals they proclaim rather than the incentives they create.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 3, 2024

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It is easy to give up freedom and hard to get it back.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 3, 2024

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“They don’t want to tell us how the world works. They want to take over the decision for us. They don’t tell parents how they are to teach sex education to their children. They put this material in the schools behind the backs of the parents with instructions not to let the… pic.twitter.com/PwvRDzeWOy

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 2, 2024

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

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) May 1, 2024

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Some people who are very dissatisfied with their lives nevertheless have no intention of changing their own behavior. They want to keep on doing what they have always done, but just have it turn out differently.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 26, 2024

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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 30, 2024

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In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 28, 2024

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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 25, 2024

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Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime, and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other…

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 24, 2024

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If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don't congratulate yourself on your compassion.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 17, 2024

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A reader has suggested that elections be held on April 16th—the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 15, 2024

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Chief Justice John Marshall said it all in one sentence: "The power to tax is the power to destroy."

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 11, 2024

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One of the key assumptions of the left is that statistical disparities are suspicious, if not sinister, especially if these are differences in income and wealth.

But if people differ radically in performance, why is it surprising that they also differ radically in the rewards…

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 11, 2024

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The Middle East must lead the world in cease-fires. If cease-fires were the road to peace, the Middle East would easily be the most peaceful place on the planet.

“Cease-fire” and “negotiations” are magic words to “the international community.” But just what do cease-fires…

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) March 27, 2024

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It is not merely that Johnny can’t read, or even that Johnny can’t think. Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is, because thinking is so often confused with feeling in many public schools.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) April 5, 2024