Explore Quotes by Thomas Sowell

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.