Life Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

— Thomas Sowell

Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

— Thomas Sowell

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

— Thomas Sowell

To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.

— Thomas Sowell

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

— Thomas Sowell

“by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.”

— Thomas Sowell

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a…

— Thomas Sowell

Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and…

— Thomas Sowell

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in…

— Thomas Sowell

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

— Thomas Sowell

We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund…

— Thomas Sowell

You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling…

— Thomas Sowell

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a…

— Thomas Sowell

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

— Thomas Sowell

Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good…

— Thomas Sowell

It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their…

— Thomas Sowell

The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living…

— Thomas Sowell

Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I…

— Thomas Sowell

Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp…

— Thomas Sowell

People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death…

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“The dire poverty of the early nineteenth century Irish may be indicated by their average life expectancy of 19 years-compared to 36…

— Thomas Sowell

If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with…

— Thomas Sowell

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most…

— Thomas Sowell

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas…

— Thomas Sowell

“Talk about how various people have been “winners” in “the lottery of life” or have things that others don’t have just because…

— Thomas Sowell

Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and…

— Thomas Sowell

“Even Karl Marx, who spent more than three decades living in Victorian England, acknowledged the rise in British workers' living standards between…

— Thomas Sowell