Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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 Image
The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem-… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Too often what are called "educated" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even… — 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
In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is… — 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
You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences… — 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
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most problems, decisions, and performances are multidimensional, but somehow the results have to be reduced to a few key indicators which are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not… — 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
The whole notion that you can equalize opportunity in things that matter is utopian. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise,… — 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
