Explore Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

Few professors would dare to publish research or teach a course debunking the claims made in various ethnic, gender, or other 'studies' courses.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

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.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

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.

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.

The real minimum wage is zero.

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.