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
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and… — 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
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
In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color,… — 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
