The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I wish that some way could be found to add up all the staggering costs imposed on millions of ordinary people, just… — 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
People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Another way of verbally masking elite preemption of other people's decisions is to use the word 'ask'-as in 'We are just asking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way… — 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
Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in… — 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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