A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
THOMAS SOWELLA society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
THOMAS SOWELLThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
THOMAS SOWELLThere are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
THOMAS SOWELLTalkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
THOMAS SOWELLFor the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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 SOWELLEconomics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
THOMAS SOWELLAs an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
THOMAS SOWELLRhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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 SOWELLThe only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
THOMAS SOWELLEveryone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
THOMAS SOWELLThe media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
THOMAS SOWELL