Thomas Sowell Quotes:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
Thomas Sowell
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
THOMAS SOWELL
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
THOMAS SOWELL
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.
THOMAS SOWELL
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
THOMAS SOWELL
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens.
THOMAS SOWELL
The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
THOMAS SOWELL
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
THOMAS SOWELL
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELL
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
THOMAS SOWELL
The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
THOMAS SOWELL
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
THOMAS SOWELL
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
THOMAS SOWELL
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
THOMAS SOWELL
If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
THOMAS SOWELL
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
THOMAS SOWELL
Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
THOMAS SOWELL
Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
THOMAS SOWELL
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
THOMAS SOWELL
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
THOMAS SOWELL
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
THOMAS SOWELL
It 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 SOWELL
It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
THOMAS SOWELL
Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.
THOMAS SOWELL
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
THOMAS SOWELL
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
THOMAS SOWELL
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
THOMAS SOWELL