Quotes

“Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.” Thomas Sowell

“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.” Thomas Sowell

“As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.” Thomas Sowell

“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell

“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.” Thomas Sowell

“The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” Thomas Sowell

“Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.” Thomas Sowell

“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.” Thomas Sowell

“The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.” Thomas Sowell

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” Thomas Sowell

“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.” Thomas Sowell

“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” Thomas Sowell

“Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.” Thomas Sowell

“Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.” Thomas Sowell

“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.” Thomas Sowell

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.” Thomas Sowell

“What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.” Thomas Sowell

“Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?” Thomas Sowell

“Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.” Thomas Sowell

“Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.” Thomas Sowell

“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.” Thomas Sowell

“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 of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.” Thomas Sowell

“Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.” Thomas Sowell

“The real minimum wage is zero.” Thomas Sowell

“Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.” Thomas Sowell

“Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.” Thomas Sowell

“Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.” Thomas Sowell

“Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.” Thomas Sowell

“If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.” Thomas Sowell