As taxpayers, we have quietly accepted the fact that our taxes will be spent to pay big bucks for all sorts of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — 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
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The gun-control crusade today is like the Prohibition crusade 100 years ago. It is a shared zealotry that binds the self-righteous know-it-alls… — 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
