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
“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs
Fonte: The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, "The survival of the left" (Sept. 8, 1997)
Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005
2000s
Fonte: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.”
Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
"Live" with Thomas Sowell https://www.aei.org/publication/live-thomas-sowell/, The American Enterprise, September 2004.
2000s
Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)
Creators Syndicate http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-11-28/news/9811270852_1_households-liberals-parents November 28, 1998.
1980s–1990s
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Real Clear Politics Nov 2008 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/ego_and_mouth.html
2000s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s
“If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.”
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/02/25/random_thoughts/page/full, Feb 25, 2004
2000s
“If there is one thing that is bipartisan in Washington, it is brazen hypocrisy.”
"Supreme Hypocrisy" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/29/supreme-hypocrisy-n2139969, 29 March 2016
2010s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007
2000s
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
National Review http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzA5YjM2MzY0ZGI1OWIyNGI4NTdmY2QxZGU3NzM5NjE=, March 15, 2007.
2000s
Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/08/26/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, 26 August 2008.
2000s
Fonte: 2010s, Intellectuals and Society (2010), Ch. 22 : The Influence of Intellectuals
"Conservatives Against Trump" http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination (21 January 2016), National Review
2010s
"The Survival of the Left" https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0908/6005128a.html, Forbes (Sep 8, 1997)
1980s–1990s
