Thomas Sowell Quotes
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If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.
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Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
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In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
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Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
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It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
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In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.
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Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.
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People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
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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.
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Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended.
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Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
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I'm so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
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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 imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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.
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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
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Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.