Quotes by Thomas Sowell
I am so old that I can remember when other people's achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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There is nothing egalitarian about lower intellectual standards in our schools. Children from more fortunate homes will get higher standards in those homes. It is the other children who most need some outside source of the things necessary to realize their potential.
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The best obituary a man can have is that the people who knew him loved him, even if those who didn't know him hated him.
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Our educational system may not teach students much math or science, but students learn from gutless academic administrators that mob rule is the way to get what you want — and to silence those who disagree with you.
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Many things that are supposed to help blacks actually have a track record of making things worse. Minimum wage laws have had a devastating effect in making black teenage unemployment several times higher than it once was.
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If we, through some miracle, get through this, please take to heart the lesson of what happens when you vote on the basis of rhetoric and symbolism instead of using your mind. It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The teachers' unions are the single biggest obstacle to black youngsters getting a decent education — and among the biggest donors to the Democrats.
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Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.
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Whenever you hear people talking about "a living Constitution," almost invariably they are people who are in the process of slowly killing it by "interpreting" its restrictions on government out of existence.
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The national debt is the ghost of Christmas past.
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Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.
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Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
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Intellectuals give people who have the handicap of poverty the further handicap of a sense of victimhood.
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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.