One of the world's most respected scholars, Thomas Sowell, on the #ClimateScam:
"Temperatures went up first, and then there was the increase in carbon dioxide. You can’t say that A causes B if B happens first… But [the scientists] who are pushing global warming are doing their… pic.twitter.com/AekBB483Wq
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) November 1, 2023
Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.” — Thomas Sowell
Historians of the future, poaching ‘possum snouts in sorrel sauce over their campfires, will trace the fall of Western Civ in the 2020s to the dissolving hallucination that was called the financial economy. It was a phantom parasitical organism that thrived on the back of a real economy based on making-and-doing things derived from the natural world, turbo-charged by fossil fuels.
The orgy of making-and-doing went on for two-hundred-plus years. Even with cyclical “recessions,” the making-and-doing always increased in the aggregate, while its products got ever more plentiful, elaborate, and complex. The phantom financial parasite clinging to its back got used to this “growth” and it, too, developed ever more ingenious ways to suck the life out of its host organism, until it became a greater entity than the host itself, breaking its back.
In the summer of 2020, as I was getting into the works of Thomas Sowell, I bought a copy of the second edition of Intellectuals and Society. Ever since, I’ve been convinced that one of the essential drivers of how off the rails everything has become in America, is the contribution to the discourse made by radical intellectuals who are in lockstep with the political and media elites. The “save democracy” mania of 2021 and ’22 that led to the events of ’23 didn’t come from just anywhere and anyone.
I took a good shot at Michael Beschloss last week, and regular viewers of The Generation Report know I have a special disdain for Biden lackey Jon Meacham. In this episode, I profile the contributions of six other intellectuals who everyone should know about. And it’s not because they’re “brilliant.”
Paul Zimmy Finn
Thomas Sowell quotes are music to the ears of conservatives, libertarians, and anyone else who has actually put some thought into forming their economic and political beliefs.
Sowell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago while working as an assistant professor of economics at Cornell. He proceeded to teach economics at his alma maters as well as Rutgers, Brandeis, Amherst, and UCLA.
Throughout his long and prestigious academic career, Sowell became one of the Chicago school of economics’ most prominent representatives, as well as famous for his books, newspaper columns, and frequent appearances as a commentator on radio and television.
Sowell is one of the most revered figures in the conservative and libertarian worlds. On his 90th birthday, the Mises Institute honored Sowell by declaring him the greatest living economist.
We agree that he is whole-heartedly. Conversely, Sowell is rather disliked (and occasionally reviled) by left-leaning intellectuals, some of whom are no doubt driven mad that they can’t just brand him a racist and be done with him. Continue reading “Thomas Sowell: New Design + Inspiring Quotes”
The political left's attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy.
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 11, 2022
Black votes matter to many politicians — more so than black lives. That is why such politicians must try to keep black voters fearful, angry and resentful. Racial harmony would be a political disaster for such politicians.
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) October 6, 2022
The teachers' unions are the single biggest obstacle to black youngsters getting a decent education — and among the biggest donors to the Democrats.
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 30, 2022
Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.
— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 27, 2022
If Thomas Sowell quotes were a wall and this article were a dart, it would be impossible to randomly throw toward a target and not come away with moral sagacity in the form of a poignant statement. Even the horrid display of athleticism from Scottie Smalls would result in being close enough to the clarion wisdom that emanates from Sowell.
The Blue State Conservative regularly produces its Top Lists of some sort. They are never scientific and rarely produce consensus. Such is the nature of these lists. Nevertheless, they still communicate important ideas and also serve as a vehicle for starting a bigger conversation. I missed a quote? The reader knows a better one? Comments below eventually achieve a fuller picture.
Continue reading “Top 20 Quotes From Thomas Sowell About Race”
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
D. H. Lawrence
“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa
“The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Thomas Sowell
“Not only can no one predict the future, we don’t understand the present – and there isn’t even any certainty about the past.”
Harry Browne
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
Thomas Sowell
“Liberty instead of Democracy!”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
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