All Thomas Sowell Quotes
- 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
- Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw… Age
- Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for… Accommodations
- Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would… Alive
- To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its… Actual
- Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that. Economics
- The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first… Chasing
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by… Aid
- Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors. Accurately
- Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of… Depriving
- All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities. All
- All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms. All
- Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster. Any
- Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. Base
- The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough. Beneficial
- The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation. Aggregation