I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.” — 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
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2)… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. — 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
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The… — 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
