Best quotes by Thomas Sowell on People

Checkout quotes by Thomas Sowell on People

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

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• ‟ The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

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• ‟ The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

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• ‟ The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

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• ‟ Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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• ‟ It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

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• ‟ People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

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