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.
THOMAS SOWELLOne 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.
THOMAS SOWELLThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
THOMAS SOWELLIn short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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 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 SOWELLRacism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
THOMAS SOWELLEconomics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
THOMAS SOWELLRhetoric is no substitute for reality.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
THOMAS SOWELLNo amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
THOMAS SOWELLNo-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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 SOWELLThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
THOMAS SOWELLFailure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
THOMAS SOWELL