Thomas Sowell Quotes

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer – and they don’t want explanations that do not give them that.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

If it were possible to enforce a ban on lying, a ghastly silence would fall over the city of Washington.

The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

One of the few compensations for growing old is accumulating memories and sharing them with others.

Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax — inflation. When the government spends money that it creates, it is transferring part of the value of your money to themselves.

Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.

Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.