Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

Thomas Sowell

Media

Business

People

" There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young. "

Thomas Sowell

Things

Misleading

" You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. "

" People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. "

" Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. "

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "

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

" Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. "

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

" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "

" Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of illegal immigrants have such a right? "

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

Thomas Sowell

Ingenuity

Budget

" A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. "

" Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "

" Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. "

" Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing. "

" 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. "

" Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. "

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

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

" As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. "

" The real minimum wage is zero. "

" Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. "

" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "

" Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. "

" What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. "

" In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other people - and to hate those other people. "