Thomas Sowell: The Problem with Thinking
“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
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Thomas Sowell Quote on Barack Obama
“Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president”
Thomas Sowell
Three Critical Questions for the Left – Thomas Sowell
“There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is – compared to what? The second is – at what cost? And the third is – what hard evidence do you have?”
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell on the Political Left and Human Tragedy
“What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.”
Thomas Sowell
Murray Rothbard on the State and Private Services
“All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.”
Murray Rothbard
“They use everything about the hog” – Quote by Upton Sinclair
“They use everything about the hog except the squeal.”
Upton Sinclair
Upton Sinclair on Socialism and Political Messaging
“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to ‘End Poverty in California’ I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.”
Upton Sinclair
Honor and Morality by H. L. Mencken
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”
H. L. Mencken
Many a truth is the result of an error – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Many a truth is the result of an error.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
One Can Acquire Some Virtues – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“One can acquire some virtues by feigning them for a long time.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach