A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. Thomas Sowell More Quotes by Thomas Sowell More Quotes From Thomas Sowell The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. Thomas Sowell fateamericapeople What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for? Thomas Sowell exactly-isfairsshare A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat." Thomas Sowell countryamericapeople The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell crowexpansionblack Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination. Thomas Sowell equal-treatmentrightspeople Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Thomas Sowell libertylittlesreality Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law. Thomas Sowell lawmeanthinking People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people. Thomas Sowell wantpeopleway By the end of the 20th century, "liberals" had again discredited themselves, to the point where they went back to calling themselves "progressives" to escape their past, much as people do when they declare bankruptcy. Thomas Sowell callingpeoplepast It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet. Thomas Sowell favorspeoplethinking 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 economicresponsibleliberty 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 issuesclassthinking We enjoy freedom and the rule of law on which it depends, not because we deserve it, but because others before us put their lives on the line to defend it. Thomas Sowell blackfreedomlaw Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot be deterred. They can only be annihilated - preemptively and unilaterally, if necessary. Thomas Sowell bombersnuclearsuicide People who have never run even a modest little business assert with great certainty and indignation that heads of multinational corporations are paid much more than they are worth. People who know nothing about medicine and nothing about economics unhesi. Thomas Sowell medicinerunningpeople Like so many before him who have ruined countries around the world, Obama has a greatly inflated idea of his own capabilities and the capabilities off what can be accomplished by rhetoric or even by political power. Thomas Sowell politicalcountryideas Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama. Thomas Sowell barackvisionamerica The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly. Thomas Sowell gamesgivingpeople Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument. Thomas Sowell argumentrefugelasts 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 self-improvementbelievepeople
