Thomas Sowell Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

  Thomas Sowell

  Art, Selfish, Patriotic

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

• The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Finite Number, Numbers, Desire

• The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Order, People

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

• The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Competition, Desire, Liberty

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.225, Basic Books

• Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Desire, Add

• However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.

  Thomas Sowell

  Desire, Different, Desire To Live

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