Showing posts with label Thomas Sowell. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Sowell. Show all posts

Monday, December 5, 2011

Time changes everything

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. - Thomas Sowell

Friday, November 18, 2011

Only an intellectual

Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. - Thomas Sowell

Friday, August 5, 2011

Entitlement Triple Header

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while. - Candice Bergen   


I think fame and notoriety suffer from the same inflated importance in today's world.

One of the consequences of such notions of "entitlement" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence. - Thomas Sowell


You mean society doesn't?


Entitlement and privilege corrupt. - Vice Admiral James Stockdale


Anytime one gets privilege they better have a friend at hand to keep them humble and rooted in reality, otherwise corruption seems inevitable.