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is a policy that is harmful to all involved. Whites lose out by not getting in, and blacks and hispanics lose out by being put in a situation where they are likely to fail.

one of the few policies that can be said to harm virtually every group in a different way Obviously, whites and Asians lose out when you have preferential admission for black students or Hispanic students but blacks and Hispanics lose out because what typically happens is the students who have all the credentials to succeed in college are admitted to colleges where the standards are so much higher that they fail.'

1s 2isintegration is due to the welfare state, even despite it having survived centuries of slavery and generations of jim crow.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell

is a worldview in which procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. Thomas Sowell

is invaded by little barbarians with each new generation born, barbarians who must be civilized before it is too late.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. Thomas Sowell

is a party that uses public funds to buy votes under the name of compassion.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes Thomas Sowell

 never speaks for itself. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. Thomas Sowell

is without foundation and to expend billions on account of it is like betting your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow' If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation' Thomas Sowell

is a policy which does not control guns and costs lives rather than saves lives.

gun control, about which he has stated: 'One can cherry-pick the factual studies, or cite some studies that have subsequently been discredited, but the great bulk of the studies show that gun control laws do not in fact control guns. On net balance, they do not save lives but cost lives.'

 can take virtually one's entire life's savings without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. Thomas Sowell

is the result of black culture cultivating a culture of blame rather than promoting practical skills for problem-solving.

Rather like Booker T. Washington,' Sowell argues that today's racial inequalities are the fault of a black culture that encourages the most talented to squander their time and energy mastering esoteric social theories that blame others for their problems, rather than learning the practical skills that will help them solve those problems themselves. He complains that a malcontented 'intelligentsia have demanded an equality of outcome and of social recognition, irrespective of the skills, behavior or performance of the group to which they belong or on whose behalf they spoke.'' Sowell, Thompson finds, 'downplays the toll that American racism has taken, not only on black fortunes but on American civic culture and politics.'[55]' (wiki)

is the most universal tax of all... it is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes.

It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. Thomas Sowell

's end product is ideas, while an engineer, however smart, does not primarily produce ideas, but things.

In Thomas Sowell's book, Intellectuals and Society, he defines an intellectual as a person whose end product is ideas, opposed to engineers or chess champions who also may be very smart, but produce something that can immediately be objectively judged.

is a group whose big word is compassion, but their big agenda is dependency.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. Thomas Sowell

is one for whom facts are not a strong suit... rhetoric is.

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is. Thomas Sowell

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. Thomas Sowell

is a value that, in reality, should be zero.

The real minimum wage is zero. Thomas Sowell

is the idea that you can praise any culture in the world except western culture and you cannot blame any culture in the world except western culture.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. Thomas Sowell

is a squeamishness about words that often means being blind to realities.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. Thomas Sowell

1s 2irst lesson is to disregard the first lesson of economics: Namely that of scarcity, that there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell

is important not because money is considered paramount but because it is a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. Thomas Sowell

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