Thomas Sowell quotes

[3Dyoungc]

You should make another video explaining what those quotes mean to you.

Everybody will take their own meaning from every quote. There are also some who may not understand the quotes using the articulate words that Thomas Sowell uses, until you break it down in simpler terms. Just an idea! Would love to hear it.

[aussieconservative]

Thomas Sowell is a genius and thanks for sharing these with up.

[grapevine808]

Simply brilliant. Thanks for the quotes.

[LindaDooWop]

Actually, he's a libertarian, rather than a conservative. Conservatives can bully as much as the liberals. His books are very enlightening and so readable. He's researched and thought things through to their logical conclusions so much more thoroughly than videos can convey.

[AnantGarg92]

Wait, Sowell doesn't want government to be dissolved?

[periechontology]

@LindaDooWop

i'd say he is a Burkean Conservative more than anything else.

[sansured]

Dr. Sowell is an intellectual titan and a true conservative icon. He is also a gentlemen. Imagine an America in which the majority of college professors possessed his brilliance, common sense and patriotism, rather than a liberal hostility towards this great country. It's unfortunate that it often takes many years of real world experience before most graduates realize that their liberal indoctrination was worthless and incorrect. And as I see it, immoral.

[Tabooga65]

Yes, He is. He is great!

[YoungTurker]

Dude......suck a cock.

[ParrhesiaJoe]

@sansured Well said.

[Sage80]

Sowell is brilliant.

[tugatrader]

You are very great too

[Iambecome]

The more I read Sowell, the more I like him. By the way, what professor was he referring to? For some reason I would guess it was Judith Butler. The name just popped into my mind.

[PureLiberalChallenge]

Thomas Sowell is great! He wears his education and erudition very lightly (unlike me!). I consider Sowell part of the avant-garde New Liberal movement.

[mdfilmguy]

"You don't have to eat an entire egg to tell it is rotten." How true. The first columnof Sowell's I ever read (in which he argued that a Democratic-controlled Senate would mean murderers on the streets) convinced me that he wasn't worth listening to about any subject. What I've read over the years of his has tended to support that. Although, I do agree with him that there is a great deficiency in academia. How else do you explain Sowell earning Ivy League degrees and a professorship?

[whennen]

Nice an attack on Sowell without backing anything up, good job. I am not even a fan, but one thing about him, if you have ever read his stuff, is that he always backs things up, it is all about empirical evidence, which you show none of.

[queenoasis]

Well letting those convicted of homicide free from prison would de facto mean more murderers on the streets. How this feat of logic is beyond your grasp is beyond me. Nice try with the glibness but the noose you tie is your own. Thomas Sowell graduated from Harvard magna cum laude- did you know? Then he went to U of Chicago probably the best economic school in the world at the time and was one of the greatest students to ever pass through. So I would consider that you consider yourself.

[mdfilmguy]

Ah, yes, I forgot about the plank in the Democratic Party Platform calling for the release of convicted killers...I am well aware that Sowell has some impressive sounding degrees, but ridiculous is ridiculous, no matter who says it. And what of his recent pining for a military coup? (Let me guess, that was taken out of context, right?) Or his various columns arguing that the war in Iraq is going swimmingly but the dastardly media won't tell us about it?

[JKDud]

Not taken out of context at all ,read his book ,Inside American Education to get a better grasp on what he was talking about.

[Tabooga65]

You are being inaccurate. Sowell stated that It might take a millitary coup to save America. He stated he hopes it would not be need nor happen but that it might be need. That is not pining for it!

[mdfilmguy]

And whom, precisely, would a coup be needed to "save" America from?

[ParrhesiaJoe]

@mdfilmguy From a broken system. I don't mind if we keep the same people, but we need some fixes in the rules... like how research is commissioned and a hundred other things. I wonder how they would vote on term limits... hmm... and so we see the problems will never be fixed... not the real ones.

[hitchwatch]

Funny how Barack Obama graduated from Columbia and Harvard and then taught at Chicago and that all is treated as utterly insignificant by people who like Thomas Sowell!

[oilhammer04]

Funny how Obama never released grades, entrance scores, thesis... What has he really done and what does he know?

[nonantianarchist]

Maybe 'cause everything he (Barack Obama) says is fatuous BS?

[MrWinston1984]

Because Obama originates no useful thoughts or action, just empty words and has perpetuated the same destructful actions that have taken place in the Executive Branch since I can remember. There is no "change" and definitely no improvement only different rhetoric.

[mjn76]

If Sowell wrote it, I read it.

[pavelow235]

Thomas Sowell is a Great Man, says it as it is and has the stats to back up his claims!

[runningoutofangels]

There are a ton of great quotes in "Civil Rights: Reality v. Rhetoric"

[philsorenson2000]

I have been a fan of Thomas Sowell for more than a decade ever since a friend gave me "The Vision of the Anointed" to read. I was hooked. I have tried to read everything that he writes. He is a national treasure.

[JohnBobBrown]

Great stuff. Really good stuff.

[illinoisgrad]

Great vid- thanks!

[johnebii]

a favorite of mine: 'Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference.'- Harry Hopkins, FDR's closest adviser and architect of the Screw Deal, I mean New Deal.

[larkydozer]

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.

[johnebii]

This is great. Thanks for the Sowell quotes. You should do this with other writers as well. Maybe you already do. I'm gonna go check right now.

[qtronman]

"You don't need to eat a whole egg to know that it is rotten." Excellent, I think I'll use it. :-)

[AynRandOeuvre]

"Note: The peculiar preoccupation of architects (& commentors) such as the previous one with "proportions,""mouldings,""sch­olarly faithfulness to Classic examples," etc. Worrying about every little thing, except the main one - the composition and its meaning as a whole. Isn't it like the people who worry greatly about fine points of "style" and grammar in literature, without caring what the writing is about? Again, the "how" against the "what".

[AynRandOeuvre]

...(Yet, the "what" determines everything else, just as the end determines the means, not vice versa. I do not intend that the "end" should justify lousy "means" either. The "how" should always be worthy of the "what," but determined by it.)

(AynRand Journal Entry : June 10 32AR)

[IdeologicalMotor]

"...as specks of knowledge scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are and how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another."

*A Valuable effort Mlle nine9s - (So)well recited*

-With utmost respect to MrSowell; I'll be paraphrasing this little gem in mI instructional-vlog-page. Except replacing 'specks' with "sparks" and 'powerfully linked' with "consistently integrated" Why? you'll know soon. (I'M)

[Subjectivity101]

i can agree with some of his sentiments - but i wouldn't consider his prose-style anything special.

[JohnBobBrown]

Oh, I would.