Thomas Sowell

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    29 Jan 2018

    "One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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  2. 20 hours ago

    "Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."

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  3. Jan 3

    "A higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It was Republicans whose 'Philadelphia Plan' in the 1970s sought to break the construction unions' racial barriers that kept blacks out of skilled trades."

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  4. Jan 3

    “I cannot understand people who say that minorities should be represented everywhere and yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the conservative movement.”

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  5. Jan 1

    "Advocates of diversity in a race or gender sense are often quite hostile to ideological diversity, when it includes traditional or 'conservative' values and beliefs."

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  6. Jan 1

    "My favorite New Year's resolution was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. This has reduced both my correspondence and my blood pressure."

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  7. 31 Dec 2018

    "Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom."

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  8. 30 Dec 2018

    "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."

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  9. 29 Dec 2018

    "It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it 'greed' to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes."

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  10. 28 Dec 2018

    Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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  11. 27 Dec 2018

    "One of the reasons people don't bother to stop and think is that symbolism lets them feel good about themselves. They can go through life leaving havoc in their wake, while enjoying a warm glow of self-approval. "

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  12. 19 Dec 2018

    Quote from the book Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays:

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  13. 19 Dec 2018

    "What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture."

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  14. 18 Dec 2018

    "Too many people in the media cannot seem to tell the difference between reporting the news and creating propaganda."

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  15. 17 Dec 2018

    “Whatever the ideology or rhetoric of the political left, their agenda around the world has been preempting other people's decisions and regimenting their lives.”

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  16. 14 Dec 2018

    "It is hard to think of any word that has confused more issues than the word 'rights.' Nowadays, almost anything that anybody wants is called a 'right'—a magic word that does away with the need for evidence, logic or even common sense."

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  17. 13 Dec 2018

    “The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything — and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’”

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  18. 13 Dec 2018

    The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior

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  19. 11 Dec 2018

    "We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past."

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  20. 10 Dec 2018

    “One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.”

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  21. 8 Dec 2018

    "Doing the right thing is fun. If nothing else, it surprises people."

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