Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
THOMAS SOWELLSince this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
THOMAS SOWELLRonald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLThere are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
THOMAS SOWELLIt doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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 SOWELLSome people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
THOMAS SOWELLThe question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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 SOWELLIf politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople 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.
THOMAS SOWELLFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLWe should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
THOMAS SOWELLEveryone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
THOMAS SOWELLNo one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
THOMAS SOWELL