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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 słynne cytaty

„George Orwell swego czasu powiedział, że niektóre idee są tak głupie, że może w nie uwierzyć tylko intelektualista (…). Historia dwudziestowiecznych intelektualistów była pod tym względem szczególnie haniebna. Prawie każdy dwudziestowieczny dyktator-ludobójca cieszył się poparciem intelektualistów, nie tylko we własnym kraju. (…) Lenin, Stalin, Mao i Hitler mieli swoich miłośników, obrońców i apologetów pośród intelektualistów z zachodnich państw demokratycznych, których nie obchodziło, że ci dyktatorzy mordowali członków swego własnego narodu na niespotykaną wcześniej skalę (…).”

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Źródło: Intelektualiści mądrzy i niemądrzy, Fijor Publishing, Warszawa 2010, tłum. Kamil Maksymiuk-Salamoński, s. 15.

„Socjaliści wymyślają nie istniejące problemy, zwalczają je, ponoszą klęskę, i winą obarczają antysocjalistów.”

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„W wielu rozwiniętych i zamożnych krajach Zachodu grupy ubogich są tak nieliczne, że można je wspierać nie tylko stosownie do potrzeb, ale nawet hojnie, nie prowadząc przy tym kampanii pochłaniających zawrotne sumy.”

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Źródło: Mitomania globalna

Thomas Sowell: Cytaty po angielsku

“Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off.”

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Economic 'Plan'?" September 11, 2012 http://lewrockwell.com/sowell/sowell110.html="An.
2010s

“One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.”

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

“Most problems do not get solved. They get superseded by other concerns.”

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

“People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance?"”

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Random thoughts http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell042902.asp, Jewish World Review, April 29, 2002
2000s

“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”

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During a discussion in Milton Friedman's "Free to Choose" television series in 1980.
1980s–1990s

“Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.”

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

“History shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around-or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?”

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

“Neither in nature nor among human beings are either equal or randomly distributed outcomes automatic. On the contrary, grossly unequal distributions of outcomes are common, both in nature and among people, in circumstances where neither genes nor discrimination are involved… The idea that it would be a level playing field, if it were not for either genes or discrimination, is a preconception in defiance of both logic and facts.”

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Źródło: Discriminations and Disparities (2018), p. 17.

“It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.”

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Random Thoughts https://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2004/12/06/random-thoughts-n996213, Townhall, December 2004.
2000s

“To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have cost without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more to produce if they were produced by enterprises operating without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.”

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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2003-12-26-0312241220-story.html, South Florida Sun Sentinel, December 26, 2003
2000s

“The greatness of a free-market economy is that it does not depend upon the wisdom of those who happen to be on top at the moment.”

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“Rise and fall of a business,” Monterey Herald, December 30, 2000
2000s