Thomas Sowell Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.”

“Elections should 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.”

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

“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

“It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.”

“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.”

“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”

“The real minimum wage is zero.”

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

“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”