Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the… — 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
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. — 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
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A recent poll showed that nearly half the American public believes that the government should redistribute wealth. That so many people are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — 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
