Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return? — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poor are the very lifeblood of the left, attracting activists, supporting among the intelligentsia, and - perhaps most important - allowing… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with "empathy" for certain groups,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
[Con] men have long known . . . that their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to… — 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
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way to get people's votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We cannot allow the defense of American lives to be held hostage by the United Nations -- which has already given Saddam… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who decry the fact that businesses are in business "just to make money" seldom understand the implications of what they are… — 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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