All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. Asking
- If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is… Basic
- The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity. Activity
- For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact. Equal
- The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people… Adding
- The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms. Conform
- An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a… Agree
- The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good… Crusade
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them… All
- No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own… Behind
- You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely… Confiscate
- Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. Any
- Neither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or… Able
- The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is… Arbitrarily
- [A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise… Action
- In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities. Blind
- There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. Bad
- Experience trumps brilliance. Brilliance
- Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in… Any
- The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians… Biggest
- Life has many good things. The problem is that most of these good things can be gotten only by sacrificing other good things. We all… All
- There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you… Amount
- What does calling this medical care legislation "historic" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting… Administration
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a… Anyone
- Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of. Among