--- title: "19 Cost Quotes By Thomas Sowell" description: "19 Cost quotes by Thomas Sowell. Plus more from Thomas Sowell and more Cost sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/thomas-sowell-247_cost_much-of-the-self-righteous-nonsense-that_824535.jpg" --- > [Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/much-of-the-self-righteous-nonsense-that-abounds-on-so-many-subjects/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/681/thomas-sowell-247_cost_much-of-the-self-righteous-nonsense-that_824535.jpg) > [“It is so easy to be wrong—and to persist in being wrong—when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/it-is-so-easy-to-be-wrong-and-to-persist-in-being-wrong-when-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b6/thomas-sowell-247_being-wrong_it-is-so-easy-to-be-wrong-and-to-persist_528792.jpg) > [Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/actually-lowering-the-cost-of-insurance-would-be-accomplished-by-such/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb3/thomas-sowell-247_accomplished_actually-lowering-the-cost-of-insurance_715423.jpg) > [Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/freedom-has-cost-too-much-blood-and-agony-to-be-relinquished-at-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d6e/thomas-sowell-247_agony_freedom-has-cost-too-much-blood-and-agon_1282379.jpg) > [Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/government-restrictions-are-attractive-to-people-who-want-to-impose/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3d/thomas-sowell-247_attractive_government-restrictions-are-attractive-t_1858513.jpg) > [The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-most-politically-painless-way-to-hand-out-goodies-without-taking/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/037/thomas-sowell-247_compassion_the-most-politically-painless-way-to-han_755961.jpg) > [The government does not have some magic wand that can 'bring down the cost of health care.' It can buy a smaller…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/the-government-does-not-have-some-magic-wand-that-can-bring-down-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ee/thomas-sowell-247_care_the-government-does-not-have-some-magic_1138163.jpg) > [To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/to-the-economically-illiterate-if-some-company-makes-a-million/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e6/thomas-sowell-247_business_to-the-economically-illiterate-if-some-c_1416879.jpg) > [Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/weighing-benefits-against-costs-is-the-way-most-people-make-decisions/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89b/thomas-sowell-247_benefits_weighing-benefits-against-costs-is-the-w_640834.jpg) > [There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is - compared to what? The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/there-are-3-questions-that-would-destroy-most-of-the-arguments-of-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d19/thomas-sowell-247_argument_there-are-3-questions-that-would-destroy_2991205.jpg) > [Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/virtually-everything-that-the-government-does-costs-more-than-when/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae3/thomas-sowell-247_building_virtually-everything-that-the-government_338144.jpg) > [I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/i-wish-that-some-way-could-be-found-to-add-up-all-the-staggering/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d51/thomas-sowell-247_add_i-wish-that-some-way-could-be-found-to-a_302719.jpg) > [For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/for-society-as-a-whole-nothing-comes-as-a-right-to-which-we-are/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/042/thomas-sowell-247_cost_for-society-as-a-whole-nothing-comes-as_2779878.jpg) > [After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/after-political-crusades-for-affordable-housing-ended-up-ruining-the/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/thomas-sowell-247_absolutely-nothing_after-political-crusades-for-affordable_2374830.jpg) > [In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/in-their-zeal-for-particular-kinds-of-decisions-to-be-made-those-with/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/568/thomas-sowell-247_amount_in-their-zeal-for-particular-kinds-of-de_2541391.jpg) > [One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/one-of-the-biggest-reasons-for-higher-medical-costs-is-that-somebody/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a7c/thomas-sowell-247_answers_one-of-the-biggest-reasons-for-higher-me_1496072.jpg) > [In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/in-its-pursuit-of-justice-for-a-segment-of-society-in-disregard-of/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0c/thomas-sowell-247_anti-social_in-its-pursuit-of-justice-for-a-segment_1140086.jpg) > [Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/oliver-wendell-holmes-said-think-things-not-words-in-words-many-see-a/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/501/thomas-sowell-247_being-wrong_oliver-wendell-holmes-said-think-things_1709628.jpg) > [One of the most basic and pervasive social processes is the sorting and labeling of things, activities, and people... Sorting and labeling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-sowell/one-of-the-most-basic-and-pervasive-social-processes-is-the-sorting/) [Thomas Sowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-sowell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cc8/thomas-sowell-247_activity_one-of-the-most-basic-and-pervasive-soci_2973287.jpg) ## Other authors on Cost ## 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/cost/thomas-sowell/#itemlist", "name": "19 Cost Quotes By Thomas Sowell", "numberOfItems": 19, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? 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