Home / Quotes / Quote by Thomas Sowell

Quote by Thomas Sowell

“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”

Quote by Thomas Sowell

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Work

Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into a range of contentious issues affecting the United States, exploring societal and political challenges from a critical perspective. more

Author

Thomas Sowell is a renowned economist, born on June 30, 1930. His research spans across various fields such as economic policy, race, and social issues, having a profound impact on economics and the social sciences. more

You May Also Like

“Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.”

Whole Study Serious Creating Gender Propaganda Department Academic

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.”

Accepting Class Technology Economy Students Ten Percent Bottom Institute Massachusetts Mit

Author:Thomas Sowell

“There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?”

Jobs Consequence Concern Intention Deeds Impressive

Author:Thomas Sowell

“If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.”

Ifs Want Individual Opinion Groups Honest Coordinates

Author:Thomas Sowell

“It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'”

Hard Problem Watches Television Solutions Come Up Newspapers

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.”

People Has Beens Seems Might President Including Impressed Adviser Reassuring

Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)

“Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.”

Self Left Moral Path Resistance Framework Indulgence Free Society Self Indulgence Path Of Least Resistance

Author:Thomas Sowell

“I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.”

Trying May Made Mistake Promise Citizenship Made A Mistake

Book:A Matter of Principle

Source: A Matter of Principle

“You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.”

People Children Sound Imagine Media Bases Prison Shooting Bites Bloody Unarmed Sound Bites

Author:Thomas Sowell

“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”

Inspirational Criticism Threat Absence

Author:Wole Soyinka