Thomas Sowell Quotes
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...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.
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If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.
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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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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 big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
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The political left has been weak on protecting society from criminals for more than two centuries.
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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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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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Sometimes it seems as if I have spent the first half of my life refusing to let white people define me and the second half refusing to let black people define me.
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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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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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The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough.
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To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.
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Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes
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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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Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States.
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One of the big differences between Democrats and Republicans is that we at least know what the Democrats stand for, whether we agree with it or not. But, for Republicans, we have to guess
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Although much of the media have their antennae out to pick up anything that might be construed as racism against blacks, they resolutely ignore even the most blatant racism by blacks against others.
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If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
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There are only two economists in Congress and hundreds of lawyers. Does that explain why the government is in such a mess?
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All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.