All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack… Advocate
- You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. Bureaucracies
- In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will… Answer
- The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Favor
- Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. Cherries
- Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. Conservative
- If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. Accept
- The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. Complexity
- Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. Accounting
- The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. Ego
- The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best. Basic
- Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Called
- One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. Caring
- People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. Business
- Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within… All
- Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Attention
- Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. Been
- If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. Barbarians
- Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. Education
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously. Anonymously