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More Quotes by Thomas Sowell
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.
