What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused… — 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
