All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to… Accepted
- When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. Conservatism
- Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers. Competition
- I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody… Earned
- Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I… Black
- Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look? Conformist
- If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind… Adolescents
- Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has… Concerned
- For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as… Age
- One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently… Apparently
- Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options Ask
- Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of… Always Zero
- It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think. Inspirational
- Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that …… Believe
- Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of… All
- Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. Break
- Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study… Attention
- President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places… Been
- The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified. Government
- The most basic function of government is to provide a framework of law and order, within which the people are free to choose. Basic
- It is amazing how many of those who consider themselves thinking people respond automatically to words the way Pavlov's dog was conditioned to respond to… Amazing
- If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live. Advice
- People who claim that sentencing a murderer to life without the possibility of parole protects society just as well as the death penalty ignore three… Claim
- Consequences matter more than intentions, and not just the immediate consequences, but also the longer run repercussions of decisions, policies, and institutions. Choices
- Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked… Boldly