When I was teaching at an institution that bent over backward for foreign students, I was asked in class one day: "What… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by… — 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
Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination. — 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
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