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Thomas Sowell
July 30, 1930 -
Nationality: American
Category: Economist
Subcategory: American Economist

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

   

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

   

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.

   

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

   

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.

   

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

   

Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.

   

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.

   

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

   

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

   

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

   

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

   

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