Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las… — 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… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the United States, liberals have made it virtually impossible [to increase the supply of oil] by banning drilling in all sorts… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Freedom... refer[s] to a social relationship among people-namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born… — 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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