Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
THOMAS SOWELLWhenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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