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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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Stupid
Ideas
Important
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Cost
Easy
Persist
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Ignorance
College
People
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Believe
Thinking
People
Not since the days of the Hitler Youth have young people been subjected to more propaganda on more politically correct issues. At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of 'race, class and gender.'
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thinking
Class
Issues
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Art
Engineering
Sound
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Years
Europe
Black
It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Believe
People
SelfImprovement
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Clever
Responsibility
Color
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
People
Important
Fabric
One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Education
Years
People
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
School
College
People
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Ideas
People
Political
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Sheep
Rights
People
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Liberty
Economic
Responsible
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Teacher
Children
Teaching
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Business
Stupid
Government
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Diversity
Important
Liberty
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Race
Racism
People
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.
― Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
President
Liberty
Complaining
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