No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not only is patriotism disdained, the very basis for pride in one's country and culture is systematically undermined in our educational institutions… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,… — 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
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
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children. — 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
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — 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
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
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
