It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
THOMAS SOWELLThe use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
THOMAS SOWELLI have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
THOMAS SOWELLExtrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
THOMAS SOWELLThe most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
THOMAS SOWELLAs history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
THOMAS SOWELLAge gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
THOMAS SOWELLEveryone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
THOMAS SOWELLMany on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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.
THOMAS SOWELLDespite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
THOMAS SOWELL