--- title: "11 Century Quotes By Thomas Sowell" description: "11 Century quotes by Thomas Sowell. Plus more from Thomas Sowell and more Century sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/thomas-sowell-247_century_the-political-left-has-been-weak-on-prot_3074417.jpg" --- > [The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-political-left-has-been-weak-on-protecting-society-from-criminals/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/thomas-sowell-247_century_the-political-left-has-been-weak-on-prot_3074417.jpg) > [The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-black-family-survived-centuries-of-slavery-and-generations-of-jim/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/678/thomas-sowell-247_black_the-black-family-survived-centuries-of-s_207357.jpg) > [The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-america-that-has-flourished-for-more-than-two-centuries-is-being/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/943/thomas-sowell-247_administration_the-america-that-has-flourished-for-more_631091.jpg) > [One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/one-of-the-bitter-ironies-of-the-20th-century-was-that-communism/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/962/thomas-sowell-247_20th-century_one-of-the-bitter-ironies-of-the-20th-ce_709499.jpg) > [It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/it-is-amazing-how-many-of-the-horrors-of-the-20th-century-were-a/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/thomas-sowell-247_20th-century_it-is-amazing-how-many-of-the-horrors-of_1810001.jpg) > [The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-greatest-danger-to-the-liberal-vision-are-facts-about-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2f/thomas-sowell-247_black_the-greatest-danger-to-the-liberal-visio_32232.jpg) > [Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/just-as-any-moron-can-destroy-a-priceless-ming-vase-so-the-shallow/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/efc/thomas-sowell-247_century_just-as-any-moron-can-destroy-a-priceles_295121.jpg) > [By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/by-the-end-of-the-20th-century-liberals-had-again-discredited/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4de/thomas-sowell-247_20th-century_by-the-end-of-the-20th-century-liberals_1622447.jpg) > [When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/when-congress-gets-through-investigating-attorney-general-janet-reno/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c01/thomas-sowell-247_agency_when-congress-gets-through-investigating_1117471.jpg) > [The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-big-divide-in-this-country-is-not-between-democrats-and-2/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/thomas-sowell-247_bigs_the-big-divide-in-this-country-is-not-be_2587193.jpg) > [Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/blacks-were-not-enslaved-because-they-were-black-but-because-they/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/037/thomas-sowell-247_available_blacks-were-not-enslaved-because-they-we_1734810.jpg) ## Other authors on Century ## More by Thomas Sowell > [The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-vision-of-the-left-full-of-envy-and-resentment-takes-its-worst/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) > [There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/there-is-no-bigger-waste-of-time-than-doing-90-of-what-is-necessary/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/if-you-have-always-believed-that-everyone-should-play-by-the-same/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/in-1962-democratic-president-john-f-kennedy-like-both-democratic-and/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/ideological-bigotry-has-become-the-norm-on-even-our-most-prestigious/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/bailing-out-people-who-made-ill-advised-mortgages-makes-no-more-sense/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) > [“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/one-third-of-all-scots-in-the-mid-nineteenth-century-moved-from-one/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-difference-is-that-we-have-the-hardest-and-most-painful-evidence/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/just-as-price-fluctuations-allocate-scarce-resources-which-have/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-greatest-danger-to-the-liberal-vision-are-facts-about-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/having-spent-years-ruining-the-housing-markets-with-their/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/do-all-children-have-some-inherent-right-to-live-in-america-if-they/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/what-eminent-domain-laws-mean-in-practice-is-that-politicians-have-a/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) > [“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/those-parts-of-the-british-isles-without-the-advantage-of-coal/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) > [The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-whole-idea-of-equal-justice-under-law-is-completely-incompatible/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/century/thomas-sowell/#itemlist", "name": "11 Century Quotes By Thomas Sowell", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Sowell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-political-left-has-been-weak-on-protecting-society-from-criminals/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13a/thomas-sowell-247_century_the-political-left-has-been-weak-on-prot_3074417.jpg", "contentUrl": 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