All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets… Complex
- Rhetoric is no substitute for reality. Inspirational
- Whatever we wish to achieve in the future, it must begin by knowing where we are in the present- not where we wish we were,… Achieve
- Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. Capitalism
- Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. Among
- 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