Thomas Sowell Quotes

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.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth-anonymously and posthumously.

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.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

Intellect is not wisdom.