If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again 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
