Carolina QuotesOne of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.
Thomas Sowell Carolinian
Source
No citation is recorded for this quotation.
- work
- Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
- year
- 1999
no citation recorded
Cite this record
“One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that i…” Thomas Sowell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-58D623EEC0. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/58d623eec0
More from Thomas Sowell
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge.
Before attempting to determine the effect of institutions, it is necessary to consider the inherent circumstances, constraints, and impelling forces at work in the environment within which the institutional mechanisms function.
When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York.