Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars… — 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
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and… — 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
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have… — 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
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
