Quotes by Thomas Sowell
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Like Barack Obama, Joe Biden has all the clever tricks of a politician and none of the wisdom of a statesman.
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If people differ radically in performance why is it surprising that they also differ radically in rewards? And if we’re determined to equalize, can we equalize upward or only downward? Can you make a mediocre golfer another Tiger Woods or only penalize Tiger for being better?
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Unless black voters take the same attitude, their interests — and the future of their children — will be sacrificed for the political support of teachers unions.
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Teachers unions supply millions of votes and millions of dollars to politicians, mostly Democrats. They don't do that automatically, but require politicians to do something in return.
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This year, Joe Biden told a black man that, if he didn't vote for him, he wasn't black. How is that for taking the black vote for granted? Both Vice President Biden and Senator Kamala Harris have declared their support for teachers unions.
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When the political left wants to help the black community, they usually want to help the worst elements in that community—thugs they portray as martyrs, for example—without the slightest regard for negative effects this can have on the lives of the majority of decent black people
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One of the first things the left does is take away the right of other people to make their own choices.
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Nothing is easier than to prove that something human has imperfections. I’m amazed at how many people devote themselves to that task.
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Wealth is the only thing that can cure poverty. The reason there is less poverty today is not because the poor got a bigger slice of the pie but because the whole pie got a lot bigger — no thanks to the left.
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The fraudulence of the left's concern about poverty is exposed by their utter lack of interest in ways of increasing the nation's wealth.
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It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.
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It would be hard to think of a more ridiculous way to make decisions than to transfer those decisions to third parties who pay no price for being wrong. Yet that is what at least half of the bright ideas of the political left amount to.
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If you took all the fraud out of politics, there might not be a lot left.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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One of the great mysteries of our time is why so many people who are either born rich or who gain great wealth in the media are so hostile to the values of American society and Western civilization. The most plausible explanation I have heard is that this stance enables them to… https://t.co/8706wIGjP2
It doesn't matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States, if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it doesn't matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any… https://t.co/mFZJOS8Bmc
It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important.
Envy used to be just a human failing, but today it is a major industry. Politicians, journalists and academics are all part of that industry, which some call "social justice."
Virtually everybody is worse off than somebody else, if only in one dimension, so there are nearly… https://t.co/0gGliTxaZw
Regardless of what it is supposed to do, what the national debt-ceiling actually does is enable any administration to get all the political benefits of runaway spending for the benefit of their favorite constituencies – and then invite the opposition party to share the blame, by… https://t.co/velqNv6Cgi
It is a painful irony that people who are promoting the make-believe equality of “inclusion” and “diversity” in schools are attacking charter schools that are producing the real equality of educational achievement.