“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
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”
FailureAll Quotes by Thomas Sowell
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Failure“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.”
Money“The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.”
Government“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.”
Technology“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“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Freedom“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.”
Amazing“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“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
Best“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.”
Science“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.”
Freedom“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“People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.”
Leadership“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Men“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
Education“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“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