No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
THOMAS SOWELLNo amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
THOMAS SOWELLTalkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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 SOWELLSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLLiberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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 SOWELLJustice at all costs’ is not justice.
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 SOWELLCompetition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
THOMAS SOWELLSuppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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 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 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 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 SOWELL