Thomas Sowell Quotes About Society

Quotes about: Society

• Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Mind, Society

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

• Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.

  Thomas Sowell

  Powerful, Political, Advice

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.8, Basic Books

• Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.

  Thomas Sowell

  Men, Vision, Society

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles”, p.49, Basic Books

• Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Technology, Simplicity, Progress

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.11, Basic Books

• The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

  Thomas Sowell

  Imagination, Society, Problem

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

• The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

  Thomas Sowell

  Light, Civilization, Society

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.107, Basic Books

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