What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Obama administration seems to be following what might be called 'the Detroit pattern increasing taxes, harassing businesses, and pandering to unions.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big problem in the long process of dumbing down the schools is that you can reach a point of no return.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We are... living in a free society without the faith that built that society - and without the conviction and dedication needed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When a highly successful leader retires after a long career, it is very unlikely that his successor will be of comparable caliber.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not… — 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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