Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. — 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
The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who… — 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
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — 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
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — 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
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
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
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
People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When government takes away options, it is bound to make some people worse off, even with intrinsicallly good intentions behind that government… — 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
Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures… — 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
Capitalism is not an 'ism.' It is closer to being the opposite of an 'ism,' because it is simply the freedom of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people… — 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 curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials. — 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
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
“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
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
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
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
What 'eminent domain' laws mean in practice is that politicians have a right to seize your property and turn it over to someone else,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“those parts of the British Isles without the advantage of coal deposits or ports, industrialization was as handicapped as in other countries.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy". — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
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