UnWired Episode 32: The Greatest Mind You Never Heard of - Thomas Sowell

Nov 16

Written By Jim Pyers

SHOWNOTES

UnWired, Episode 32 - for Friday, November 16, 2021

Show Title: Thomas Sowell

SubTitle: Lockdown Counter: Day 449s (on pause)

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Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell QUOTES:

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department." - Thomas Sowell

Diversity, Important, Liberty "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.

"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'" - Thomas Sowell

Race, Racism, People

"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."

- Thomas Sowell

Truth, Lying, Helping Others

Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.398, Basic Books

"Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'" - Thomas Sowell

Thinking, Class, Issues

"What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice." - Thomas Sowell

"It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion." - Thomas Sowell

Believe, People, Self Improvement

"ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments." - Thomas Sowell

Ideas, People, Political

"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." - Thomas Sowell

Years, Europe, Black

"Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole." - Thomas Sowell

People, Important, Fabric

Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

"Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president." - Thomas Sowell

Country, Home, America

"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." - Thomas Sowell

Education, Years, People

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.403, ReadHowYouWant.com

"One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again." - Thomas Sowell

Stupid, Ideas, Important

"It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others." - Thomas Sowell

Cost, Easy, Persist

Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.136, Basic Books

"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did." - Thomas Sowell

Liberty, Economic, Responsible

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.332, Hoover Press

"There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs." - Thomas Sowell

Stupid, Creating, People

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind." - Thomas Sowell

Two, Numbers, Political

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

"If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are. - Thomas Sowell

Believe, Men, Brotherhood Of Man

'A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."'

- - Thomas Sowell

Country, America, People

"In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees." - Thomas Sowell

Ignorance, College, People

Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.402, ReadHowYouWant.com

"There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse." - Thomas Sowell

Political, Liberty, Libertarian

"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." - Thomas Sowell

President, Liberty, Complaining

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

"Intellect is not wisdom." - Thomas Sowell

Intellect

"One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience." - Thomas Sowell

More Thomas Sowell Resources:

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Thomas Sowell - Wikipedia

// Thomas Sowell Website

Index (tsowell.com)

// Thomas Sowell Books

Thomas Sowell | Complete Writings (tsowell.com)

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Thomas Sowell | Favorite Quotations (tsowell.com)

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Thomas Sowell | Photographs (tsowell.com)

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