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.

Quote by Thomas Sowell

Topics: Conservatism Quotes, People Quotes

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who...

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who...

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives...

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of...

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to...

Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could...

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and...

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and...

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals,...

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals,...

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen...

If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen...

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who...

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who...

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they...

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do...

It doesnt matter what you do if you dont do what matters. If you do...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

They take the paper and they read the headlines, so they've heard of unemployment and...

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God...

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God...

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently...

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice

Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice