If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“A mere enumeration of government activity is evidence -- often the sole evidence offered -- of "inadequate" nongovernment institutions, whose "inability" to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation... — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. — 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
“Where recyling takes place only in response to political pressures and exhortations, it need not meet the test of being incrementally worth… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be. — 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 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
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. — 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
