The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem-… — 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
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new… — 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
