Thomas Sowell Quotes About Greed

Quotes about: Greed

• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Greed, Want

  "Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

• It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

  Thomas Sowell

  Greed, Use, Want

• With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, Government, Order

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