There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. — 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
Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified. — 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
No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce. — 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
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed… — 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
Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. — 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
In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a 'stimulus,' then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated 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
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 power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural… — 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
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or… — 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
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Government cannot solve all our problems, even in normal times, much less during a catastrophe of nature that reminds man how little… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“What the British had earlier than many other peoples was a framework of law and government that facilitated economic transactions.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism… — 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
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those… — 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… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on and stop getting swept away… — 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
Wise men wrote the Constitution, but clever judges have been destroying it, bit by bit, turning it into an instrument of arbitrary… — 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
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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