What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How a man who holds the entire population of a country as his prisoners, and punishes the families of those who escape,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge… — 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
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Military pay has been allowed to lag behind to the point where career enlisted men with families to feed have been forced… — 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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