Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would… — 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
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — 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
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To say that 'wealth in America is so unfairly distributed in America,' as Ronald Dworkin does, is grossly misleading when most wealth… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not… — 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
