There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives.
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
- Topic: Responsibility
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More Quotes from Thomas Sowell
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.
More on Responsibility
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.
We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
