Thomas Sowell Quote - Liberty Quotes Blog

"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."

by:	Thomas Sowell (1930- ) Writer and economist
Source:	Conservative Chronicle, September 13, 1995.
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A good reference for today's main stream media. -- J Carlton, Calgary 1
-- Mary - MI
-- Ionel, Bucharest
Helping one's self brings to mind, the ani-truther's; "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it" -- Mike, Norwalk 1
I pay attention to anything this man says. I believe he is one of most clear thinking individuals in the world today. -- BR, Utah 1
-- Ronw13, ID
What the mentally ill want is never the truth. The mentally healthy want only the whole truth. -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown
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