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"The constrained vision sees the evils of the world as deriving from the limited and biased nature of man himself, and therefore sees the social challenge as being to make the best of the possibilities which exist within that constraint, rather than to try to change human nature."

— Sowell, Thomas event 1987

From A Conflict of Visions

Context: From *A Conflict of Visions* (1987). Sowell's formulation of the constrained vision, the assumption that human nature is fixed, self-interested, and morally limited, and that institutions must work with this reality rather than against it.

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