903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

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    All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

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    The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

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    Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

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

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

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    The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

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    The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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