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More Quotes by Thomas Sowell
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
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.
Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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.
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.
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
