Thomas Sowell Quotes
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
The only thing better than "hands-on" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.
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.
Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?
In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals.
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.
The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.
Don't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
Ego trips by coteries of self-exalting people are treated in the media as idealism, rather than the petty tyranny it is.
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 is evading the truth.
It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.
Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility.
Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.
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 it makes its crusaders feel.
The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.
A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.
An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.
Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of.
