Comments on: Happy belated 95th birthday to Thomas Sowell

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:26:49 +0000

I’m a huge fan of Sowell. So how in the world did I miss quote number 21 all my life?!

21) “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”

Thank you Sgt. Joe Friday for rectifying the situation.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:32:32 +0000

I’m now also a big fan of Rob Henderson, who coined Luxury Beliefs as a status competition among some elites. Sowell is far more comprehensive in detailing those beliefs, that vision, tho “Vision of the Anointed” is too awkward, even if more accurate.

I also get somebody’s X tweets called Thomas Sowell’s Quotes who most often tweets a nice quote or two by Sowell.

He’s been shadow censored due to being a very articulate Black conservative. Glad he’s at the Hoover institute, at Stanford.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:36 +0000

@ Wendy > “He taught me more about economics than everyone else put together.”

So true, and I hope that is the hat tip to “Singing in the Rain” that I think it is.

https://www.quotes.net/mquote/86750
Lina Lamont:
Why, I make more money than – than – than Calvin Coolidge! Put together!

My second-most favorite line:
Don Lockwood:
Dignity. Always, dignity.

By: Mary Catelli

Mary Catelli — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:00:23 +0000

He recounted once how he had seen the birth and death certificates of the people he was born to, and realized with a shock that he had not only lived longer than them both, he had lived longer than both of them combined.

By: Wendy K Laubach

Wendy K Laubach — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 02:19:08 +0000

He taught me more about economics than everyone else put together.

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:58:11 +0000

How much misery could have been avoided had anyone listened to those two men?

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:18:32 +0000

Sowell and Williams, two priceless national treasures.

By: Sgt. Joe Friday

Sgt. Joe Friday — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:24:27 +0000

A favorite of mine along with the late Walter Williams. Here is a link to some of Sowell’s best quotes: https://fee.org/articles/30-priceless-quotes-from-the-great-thomas-sowell/