“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
Government
“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.”
TimeAll Quotes by Thomas Sowell
“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
Leadership“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.”
Politics“If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
Business“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.”
Power“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
Funny“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.”
Hope“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.”
Money“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
Time“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.”
Good“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Men“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
Time“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.”
Time“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Failure“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Freedom“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
Science“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.”
Politics“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”
War“Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.”
Knowledge“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
Education