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
Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is not the dignitaries who are the real cause of hope, however. What is an enormously refreshing and hopeful sign is… — 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
Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward - certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — 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
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
Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the… — 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
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