“Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.”
Freedom
“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
“Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
Education“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“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”
Time“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 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“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“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“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.”
Government“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“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 big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.”
Men“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
Funny“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
Work“Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.”
Best“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“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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
Time“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.”
Truth