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More Quotes by Thomas Sowell
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
