There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. — 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
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Most officially “poor” Americans today have things that middle-class Americans of an earlier time could only dream about—including color TV, videocassette recorders,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“building and patronizing churches and schools, both of which were outstanding by the standards of the times.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only… — 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
Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“More generally, confidence that an investment of labor and resources could claim its reward-whether at harvest time or when dividends were issued… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Foreign workers, attracted to Nigeria from other African countries during boom times, were deeply resented during hard times-and were brutally expelled en… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce,… — 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
