“The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than to find some individuals—in any group—who share a given writer’s opinion, and to quote such individuals as if… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
