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
The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sellers in general maintain the quality of their products and services for fear of losing customers otherwise. But, when price controls create… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — 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
There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the… — 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
