The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean… — 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
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled… — 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
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
An independent judiciary does not mean judges independent of the Constitution from which they derive their power or independent of the laws… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“All that is necessary is for the conqueror to establish a degree of law and order under which others can feel secure.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. — 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
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