One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the… — 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
Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — 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
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — 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
