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“Visions are the foundations on which theories are built. The final structure depends not only on the foundation, but also on how carefully and consistently the framework of theory is constructed and how well buttressed it is with hard facts.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions

“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions

“While believers in the unconstrained vision seek the special causes of war, poverty, and crime, believers in the constrained vision seek the special causes of peace, wealth, or a law-abiding society.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

“The most dangerous state in the growth of civilization may well be that in which man has come to regard all these beliefs as superstitions and refuses to accept or to submit to anything which he does not rationally understand. The rationalist whose reason is not sufficient to teach him those limitations of the power of conscious reason, and who despises all the institutions and customs which have not been consciously designed, would thus become the destroyer of the civilization built upon them.”
― Thomas Sowell, A Conflict of Visions