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Beschreibung | Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/; geboren am 30. Juni 1930) ist ein amerikanischer Autor, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, politischer Kommentator und Akademiker, der als Senior Fellow an der Hoover Institution tätig ist. Mit zahlreichen veröffentlichten Kommentaren und Büchern - und als Gast in Fernsehen und Radio - wurde er zu einer bekannten Stimme in der amerikanischen konservativen Bewegung und gilt als einer der einflussreichsten schwarzen Konservativen. Im Jahr 2002 wurde er von Präsident George W. Bush mit der National Humanities Medal ausgezeichnet. |
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
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.
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.
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.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
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.
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.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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.
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
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.
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.
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.
