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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."
- - 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 and Other Controversial Essays, Página 246, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
- - 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."
- - 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 and Other Controversial Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
- - 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."
- - 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 and Other Controversial Essays, Hoover Institution Press, 1999
- - 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."
- - Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
- - Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays, Capítulo "Bogeyman Economics", Página 89, Morrow, 1987
- - 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."
- - 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.
- "É incrível como algumas pessoas acham que nós não podemos pagar médicos, hospitais e medicamentos, mas pensam que nós podemos pagar por médicos, hospitais, medicamento e toda a burocracia governamental para administrar isso."
- - It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- - Knowledge and Decisions (1980), p. 334.
- - It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
- "O fato de que muitos políticos de sucesso são mentirosos, não é exclusivamente reflexo da classe política, é também um reflexo do eleitorado. Quando as pessoas querem o impossível somente os mentirosos podem satisfaze-las."
- - The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
- - Big Lies in Politics (22 de maio de 2012), Townhall.com
- - The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
- "O socialismo parece ótimo. Sempre pareceu ótimo. E provavelmente sempre continuará a parecer excelente. É somente quando você vai além da retórica, e começa a analisar fatos é que o socialismo acaba por ser uma grande decepção, senão um desastre.
- - Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
- - "Socialism for the Uninformed", (31 de maio de 2016), Townhall.com.
- - Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
- "Os homens das cavernas tinham à sua disposição os mesmos recursos naturais que temos hoje, e a diferença entre o seu nível de vida e o nosso é uma diferença entre o conhecimento que eles poderiam aplicar sobre esses recursos e o conhecimento utilizado hoje."
- - The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.
- - Knowledge and Decisions (1980), Cap. 3
- - The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today.
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- "A palavra "gênio" é tão aplicada por aí que está se tornando sem sentido, mas mesmo assim eu acho que Tom Sowell está perto de ser um."
- - The word "genius" is thrown around so much that is becoming meaningless, but still I think Tom Sowell is close to being one.
- - Milton Friedman sobre Thomas Solwell em Thomas Sowell Quotes. Your Dictionary. 11 de abril de 2016. Visitado em 29 de agosto de 2017.
- - The word "genius" is thrown around so much that is becoming meaningless, but still I think Tom Sowell is close to being one.