Thomas Sowell grew up in Harlem, served in the Marine Corps during Korean War...graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard,
Masters from Columbia U...Economist, Social Theorist, Philosopher, Author...Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University...National Humanities Medal... Francis Boyer Award................
No one here expects you to grasp the genius of Thomas Sowell. Here are a few more "Sowell-isms"
That you won't be able to wrap your head around............
"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."
"Too much of what is called education is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."
"The welfare state is the oldest... The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's
money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly."
"Thomas Sowell 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."
"One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to
society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence."
"I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to
take somebody else’s money."
"Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked
with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten
worse after the bright new theories were put into operation."
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