When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays, Página 246 https://books.google.com.br/books?ei=1xlWVbS1IsawggTq5YG4DA&hl=pt-BR&id=VX0aAQAAIAAJ&dq=thomas+sowell+Barbarians+Inside+the+Gates&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22When+you+want+to+help+people%2C+you+tell+them+the+truth.+When+you+want+to+help+yourself%2C+you+tell+them+what+they+want+to+hear.%22, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
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Thomas Sowell Frases famosas
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.
Knowledge and Decisions (1980), p. 334.
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
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.
Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
Thomas Sowell frases e citações
Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
"Socialism for the Uninformed" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the-uninformed-n2171042, (31 de maio de 2016), Townhall.com.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays (1993), p. 131
“Competição faz um trabalho muito mais eficiente que o governo em proteger consumidores.”
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays, Capítulo "Bogeyman Economics", Página 89, Morrow, 1987
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Big Lies in Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/05/22/big_lies_in_politics/page/full (22 de maio de 2012), Townhall.com
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Thomas Sowell: Frases em inglês
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Fonte: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Contexto: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Student Loans
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Fonte: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays
Fonte: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (2011), p.397
“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”
Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Fonte: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays
“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”
Fonte: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays
Big Lies in Politics http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2012/05/22/big_lies_in_politics/page/full, 22 May 2012.
2010s
“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”
Fonte: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
"Socialism for the Uninformed" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/05/31/socialism-for-the-uninformed-n2171042, 31 May 2016
2010s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005
2000s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/08/26/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, 26 August 2008.
2000s
“Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance.”
Fonte: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Contexto: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.
Social Deterioration
1980s–1990s, Is Reality Optional? (1993)
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007
2000s
Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Fonte: Knowledge And Decisions
