Quotes by Thomas Sowell
“The older I get, and the more I see of human beings, the more I understand why some people love their dogs so much.”
“Life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options.”
“Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers' money "investment," even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.”
“There was a time when we honored those who created the prosperity and the freedom that we enjoy. Today we honor the complainers and sue the creators. Perhaps that is inevitable in an era when we no longer count our blessings, but instead count all our unfulfilled wishes.”
“The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.”
“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”
“The kind of people who talk about the "root causes" of crime never include leniency.”
“If there is not equality of outcomes among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, why should equality of outcomes be expected—or assumed—when conditions are not nearly so comparable?”
“A major part of the financial expertise of government consists of devising ways to conceal how much they are taking from the public. Those who complain that the government is not supporting the creative arts have just never looked at federal bookkeeping.”
“You might say the road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.”
“The Federal Reserve represented wonderful hopes, but we've had so many programs that represented wonderful hopes that ended in disaster.”
“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.”
“People say “you’re a very tough person.” I’m not tough. Life is tough. I’m merely trying to acquaint you with those facts.”
“Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their "betters."”
“It's like the Marxists who are telling us that Eastern Europe wasn't really socialism. At some point, you have to ask yourself, could it be that this principle cannot work out in practice with human beings as they exist on this planet?”
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