Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.
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Just as members of American teachers unions often send their own children to private schools, so unionized workers at government-run hospitals in Britain have insurance that allows them to go to private hospitals. In both cases, those on the inside realize how bad these institutions are, regardless of what they say to those on the outside.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.
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How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
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Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
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Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.
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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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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
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The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.
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All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
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There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
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The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action
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Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact.
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People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children.
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There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.
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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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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.