All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done. All
- The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone. Alone
- If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays… Beat
- Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things. Big
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… Attention
- Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present. Agendas
- In this era of non-judgmental mush, too many Americans have become incapable of facing the brutal reality of unprovoked hatred, based on envy, resentment and… Americans
- All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities. All
- Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to… Administration
- Everyone should be concerned about Internet anarchy in which anybody can pretend to be anybody else, unless something is done to stop it. If hoaxes… Anarchy
- When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… Agency
- France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance. Fact
- It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you… Act
- The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that… Left
- Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain. Barack
- In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to… Compassion
- Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart. Almost Guaranteed
- Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from… Any
- The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have… Benefit
- Government's power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us. All