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
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As an entrepreneur in India put it: 'Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care… — 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
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“At the lower end of the social scale, as well as among the gentry, enterprise and social mobility were part of the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“the railroad and the steamship affected not only industry and commerce, but also the lives of millions of ordinary people.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most intellectuals outside the field of economics show remarkably little interest in learning even the basic fundamentals of economics. Yet they do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other… — 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 Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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