It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who think that they are being exploited should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves hinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — 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
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. Think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present - not where… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody --… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
