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“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.”―     Thomas Sowell,     Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays    

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”―     Thomas Sowell

“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.                      ”―     Thomas Sowell

“People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”―     Thomas Sowell,     Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays    

“The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.”―     Thomas Sowell

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”―     Thomas Sowell

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”―     Thomas Sowell

“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”―     Thomas Sowell

“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.”―     Thomas Sowell,     Knowledge And Decisions

“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.”―     Thomas Sowell