Thomas Sowell cytaty

Thomas Sowell – amerykański ekonomista, profesor w Instytucie Hoovera na Uniwersytecie Stanforda w Kalifornii. Prócz działalności naukowej i badawczej, które zaowocowały licznymi publikacjami książkowymi, Sowell zajmuje się publicystyką na łamach prasy. Swoje poglądy określa jako najbliższe libertarianizmowi, chociaż – jak sam twierdzi – „mógłby nie zgodzić się z ruchem libertariańskim w wielu sprawach”. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Czerwiec 1930
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Thomas Sowell: Cytaty po angielsku

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.”

Źródło: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Kontekst: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.

“Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.”

Bogeyman Economics
1980s–1990s, Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (1987)
Źródło: Compassion Versus Guilt, and Other Essays: And Other Essays

“Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?”

Źródło: Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays

“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 May 2012.
2010s

“There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.”

Źródło: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

“Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.”

Random Thoughts http://townhall.com/columnists/ThomasSowell/2007/09/03/random_thoughts?page=full&comments=true, Sep 03, 2007
2000s

“Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance.”

Źródło: 2000s, A Personal Odyssey (2000), Ch. 5 : Halls of Ivy
Kontekst: In the summer of 1959, as in the summer of 1957, I worked as a clerk-typist in the headquarters of the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington. The people I worked for were very nice and I grew to like them. One day, a man had a heart attack at around 5 PM, on the sidewalk outside the Public Health Service. He was taken inside to the nurse's room, where he was asked if he was a government employee. If he were, he would have been eligible to be taken to a medical facility there. Unfortunately, he was not, so a phone call was made to a local hospital to send an ambulance. By the time this ambulance made its way through miles of Washington rush-hour traffic, the man was dead. He died waiting for a doctor, in a building full of doctors. Nothing so dramatized for me the nature of a bureaucracy and its emphasis on procedures, rather than results.

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”

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

“Intellect is not wisdom.”

Thomas Sowell książka Intellectuals and Society

Źródło: Intellectuals and Society