« All Today Quotes · Thomas Sowell's Page
Today Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- Why is history important? Without history, many people have no idea how many of today's half-baked ideas have been tried, again and again - and…
- Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
- Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western…
- Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters…
- A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. Â In…
- People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and…
- Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial…
- No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most…
- 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…
- The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead…
- If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you…
- Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
- Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result…
- What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking…
- If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
More Today Quotes
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I never thought being obnoxious would get me where I am today. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin