Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 319 of Thomas Sowell’s 2002 collection, Controversial Essays:

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse imagined grievances.

DBx: Yes. This truth holds both for shooting wars and for trade wars.