The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected… — 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
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with… — 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
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues.… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal… — 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
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
