“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”
War
“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
TimeAll Quotes by Thomas Sowell
“The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.”
Technology“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
Knowledge“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
Freedom“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
Science“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”
Failure“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Failure“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
Work“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
Leadership“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
Education“Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
Good“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Freedom“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Men“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.”
Hope“Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.”
Power“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
Politics“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
Time“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
Government“People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.”
Money“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
Business