21 Quotes by Thomas Sowell about People




  • Author Thomas Sowell
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    The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

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    Failure is a big part of a free market's success. People fail to live up to their potential, or to carry out all their good intentions, in all kinds of economic and political systems. Capitalism makes them pay a price for their failures, while socialism, feudalism, fascism and other systems enable personal failures, especially by those at the top, to be ignored.

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    People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

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    Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.

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    Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.

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