“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 Copy Share Image
Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Even Karl Marx, who spent more than three decades living in Victorian England, acknowledged the rise in British workers' living standards between… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — 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
Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — 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
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“by 1891, nearly two-fifths of all living people born in Ireland were living outside Ireland.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I… — 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
