Frases de Thomas Sowell (113 citações, página 2)

Thomas Sowell: 113 citações67 Curtidas

Thomas Sowell Frases famosas

“Quando você quer ajudar as pessoas, conte a verdade. Quando você quer ajudar a si próprio, conte o que elas querem ouvir.”

Thomas Sowell

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

“É incrível como algumas pessoas acham que nós não podemos pagar médicos, hospitais e medicamentos, mas pensam que nós podemos pagar por médicos, hospitais, medicamento e toda a burocracia governamental para administrar isso.”

Thomas Sowell livro Knowledge and Decisions

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.

“É difícil imaginar uma maneira mais perigosa de tomar decisões do que deixá-las nas mãos de pessoas que não pagam o preço por estarem erradas.”

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“É preciso grande sabedoria só para perceber a extensão da própria ignorância.”

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“Eu nunca entendi porque é "ganância" querer manter o dinheiro que você ganhou, mas não é ganância querer tomar o dinheiro dos outros.”

Thomas Sowell

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

“Algumas pessoas no corredor da morte hoje poderiam não estar lá se os tribunais não tivessem sido lenientes com eles quando eram réus primários.”

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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.
Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1999

Thomas Sowell frases e citações

“O socialismo parece ótimo. Sempre pareceu ótimo. E provavelmente sempre continuará a parecer excelente. É somente quando você vai além da retórica, e começa a analisar fatos é que o socialismo acaba por ser uma grande decepção, senão um desastre.”

Thomas Sowell

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.

“A primeira lição da economia é a escassez: nunca há o bastante de algo para satisfazer todos aqueles que o querem. A primeira lição da política é ignorar a primeira lição da economia.”

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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

“O fato de que muitos políticos de sucesso são mentirosos, não é exclusivamente reflexo da classe política, é também um reflexo do eleitorado. Quando as pessoas querem o impossível somente os mentirosos podem satisfaze-las.”

Thomas Sowell

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

“Competição faz um trabalho muito mais eficiente que o governo em proteger consumidores.”

Thomas Sowell

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

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“Maturidade não é uma questão de idade. Você amadurece quando para de se preocupar em mostrar o quanto é inteligente e dá total atenção para que dê tudo certo em seu trabalho. Muitos nunca atingem esse estágio, não importa quantos anos tenham.”

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“A questão mais básica não é o que é melhor, mas quem deve decidir o que é melhor.”

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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.”

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Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 5 : Political Trade-Offs

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”

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Fonte: The Thomas Sowell Reader, New York: NY, Basic Books (2011) p. 144, Forbes magazine, "The survival of the left" (Sept. 8, 1997)

“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”

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“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”

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“What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?”

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“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.”

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Random Thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell101705.asp, Oct. 17, 2005 2000s

“Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.”

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“Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options”

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“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”

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“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”

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Fonte: Knowledge And Decisions

“Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.”

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Fonte: Knowledge And Decisions

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”

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Fonte: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy

“Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.”

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Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

“I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.”

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"Live" with Thomas Sowell https://www.aei.org/publication/live-thomas-sowell/, The American Enterprise, September 2004. 2000s

“Key indicators require some specified time span during which they are to be tabulated for purposes of reward or penalty. The time span can vary enormously according to the process and the indicator.”

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Fonte: 1980s–1990s, Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge

“It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.”

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Random Thought
2000s, Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays (2006)

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.”

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Creators Syndicate http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1998-11-28/news/9811270852_1_households-liberals-parents November 28, 1998. 1980s–1990s

“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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1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise — whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team — is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.”

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Real Clear Politics Nov 2008 http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/11/ego_and_mouth.html 2000s

“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.”

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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.”

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1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.”

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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.”

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"Supreme Hypocrisy" http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/03/29/supreme-hypocrisy-n2139969, 29 March 2016 2010s

“Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.”

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Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/05/01/random_thoughts, May 01, 2007 2000s

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

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1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.”

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National Review http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzA5YjM2MzY0ZGI1OWIyNGI4NTdmY2QxZGU3NzM5NjE=, March 15, 2007. 2000s

“Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.”

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Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2008/08/26/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, 26 August 2008. 2000s

“Some intellectuals’ downplaying of objective reality and enduring criteria extends beyond social, scientific, or economic phenomena into art, music, and philosophy. The one over-riding consistency across all these disparate venues is the self-exaltation of the intellectuals. Unlike great cultural achievements of the past, such as magnificent cathedrals, which were intended to inspire kings and peasants alike, the hallmark of self-consciously “modern” art and music is its inaccessibility to the masses and often even its deliberate offensiveness to, or mockery of, the masses.
Just as a physical body can continue to live, despite containing a certain amount of microorganisms whose prevalence would destroy it, so a society can survive a certain amount of forces of disintegration within it. But that is very different from saying that there is no limit to the amount, audacity and ferocity of those disintegrative forces which a society can survive, without at least the will to resist.”

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Fonte: 2010s, Intellectuals and Society (2010), Ch. 22 : The Influence of Intellectuals

“In a country with more than 300 million people, it is remarkable how obsessed the media have become with just one—Donald Trump. What is even more remarkable is that, after seven years of repeated disasters, both domestically and internationally, under a glib egomaniac in the White House, so many potential voters are turning to another glib egomaniac to be his successor.”

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"Conservatives Against Trump" http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430126/donald-trump-conservatives-oppose-nomination (21 January 2016), National Review 2010s

“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”

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"The Survival of the Left" https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/0908/6005128a.html, Forbes (Sep 8, 1997) 1980s–1990s