Thomas
Sowell is a conservative professor, author, columnist. He also happens to be black and grew up in
North Carolina and New York. He was born
in AD 1930 and proudly considers himself a relic of the past.
Sowell
has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, taught at UCLA and is
a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Senator Ted Cruz called him a “brilliant
thinker and writer.” Sowell recently
retired at age 86.
I
like quotes. Even though I may not
always agree with the author. Even
though I may not even agree with every nuance of the quote.
Here are a few thoughts to ponder from Dr.
Thomas Sowell.
1. People
who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
2. 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 60 years
ago, a liberal 30 years ago, and a racist today.
3. Immigration
laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who
break them.
4.
No community is better off for having large numbers of idle young males,
hanging around with nothing to do except getting into trouble.
5. Socialism
in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could
ignore or evade it.
6. The
next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many
Republicans there are in their sociology department.
7. The
most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
8. The
biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various
welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their
income goes up.
9. The
real minimum wage is zero.
10. What
'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the
world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world
except Western culture.
11. Elections
should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is
one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
12.
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and
demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’
13.
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate
were white.
14.
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.
15. Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the "Black Lives Matter" movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don't matter to them.
16. We have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
15. Chief among those who generate this poisonous atmosphere are career race hustlers like Al Sharpton and racist institutions like the "Black Lives Matter" movement. All such demagogues need is a situation where there has been a confrontation where someone was white and someone else was black. The facts don't matter to them.
16. We have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
A word fitly spoken is
like apples of gold in settings of silver.
-Proverbs 25:11
-Proverbs 25:11
-David R. Brumbelow, Gulf Coast Pastor,
December 28, AD 2016.
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