Thomas Sowell
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Thomas Sowell (Gastonia, 30 de junho de 1930) é um economista americano, crítico social, comentarista político e autor. Ele frenquentemente escreve como um defensor da economia laissez-faire, e sua visão política pode ser geralmente classificada como libertária.
- "Quando você quer ajudar as pessoas, conte a verdade. Quando você quer ajudar a si próprio, conte o que elas querem ouvir."
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- - When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
- - Barbarians Inside the Gates
- - When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
- "Eu nunca entendi porque é "ganância" querer manter o dinheiro que você ganhou, mas não é ganância querer tomar o dinheiro dos outros."
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- - I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
- - Barbarians Inside the Gates
- - I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
- "Algumas pessoas no corredor da morte hoje poderiam não estar lá se os tribunais não tivessem sido lenientes com eles quando eram réus primários."
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- - Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
- - Barbarians Inside the Gates
- - Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
- "Competição faz um trabalho muito mais eficiente que o governo em proteger consumidores."
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- - Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
- - Compassion Vs. Guilt, Capítulo "Bogeyman Economics"
- - Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
- "A primeira lição da economia é a escassez: nunca há o bastante de algo para satisfazer todos aqueles que o querem. A primeira lição da política é ignorar a primeira lição da economia."
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- - The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- - Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays (1993), p. 131
- - The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
