Thomas Sowell: The Money of Fools

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The Money of Fools (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/thomas-sowell/4586-the-money-of-fools)


Thomas Sowell | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
15 September 2010


The Money of Fools: Part 1 (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/thomas-sowell/4586-the-money-of-fools)


Seventeenth century philosopher Thomas Hobbes said that words are wise men's counters, but they are the money of fools. That is as painfully true today as it was four centuries ago. Using words as vehicles to try to convey your meaning is very different from taking words so literally that the words use you and confuse you. By Thomas Sowell


The Money of Fools: Part 2 (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/thomas-sowell/4608-the-money-of-fools-part-2)


Words are supposed to convey thoughts, but they can also obliterate thoughts and shut down thinking. By Thomas Sowell

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"Liberals" and "Conservatives" - The Money of Fools, Part III (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/thomas-sowell/4617-qliberalsq-and-qconservativesq-the-money-of-fools-part-iii)



The words liberal and conservative no longer mean what they once did, and those who fail to understand the changed context willfully receive what Thomas Sowell calls the money of fools.

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The Money of Fools Part IV - Disarmament (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/opinion/thomas-sowell/4627-the-money-of-fools-part-iv-disarmament)



One of the many words that sound so attractive, to people who do not think beyond the word, is disarmament. By Thomas Sowell