It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since terrorists are pouring into Iraq in response to calls from international terrorist networks, the number of those who are killed is… — 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
People who refuse to accept unpleasant truths have no right to complain about politicians who lie to them. What other kind of… — 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
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way… — 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
The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Given that some social processes must convey inherent constraints, the choice is among various mixtures of persuasion, force, and cultural inducement. The… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who think that they are being exploited should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. — 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
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and… — 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
