Iron was smelted in what is now Nigeria five centuries…

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

There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.

— Thomas Sowell

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

“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

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

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

“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”

— Thomas Sowell

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

“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

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

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

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

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

“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”

— Thomas Sowell

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

— Thomas Sowell