Thomas Sowell Quotes About Opportunity

Quotes about: Opportunity

• The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Opportunity, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.316, Hoover Press

• Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, People, Age

• Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Rights, Decision

• One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Thinking, Government

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

• The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that
  matter is utopian.

  Thomas Sowell

  Opportunity, Matter, Notion

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