What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
THOMAS SOWELLFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
THOMAS SOWELLSome of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
THOMAS SOWELLReality does not go away when it is ignored.
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 SOWELLWhat then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
THOMAS SOWELLEconomics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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 SOWELLTo believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
THOMAS SOWELLThe history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
THOMAS SOWELLThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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 SOWELLSocialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELL