If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. Thomas Sowell More Quotes by Thomas Sowell More Quotes From Thomas Sowell The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' Thomas Sowell racistconservativeracism If you believe in equal rights, then what do “women’s rights,” “gay rights,” etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all. Thomas Sowell gaymeanbelieve Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. Thomas Sowell different-daydifferentmen I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal - instead of being intolerant of anything and anybody that is not politically correct. Thomas Sowell politically-correctlibertarianremember It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. Thomas Sowell governmentlawthinking There are few talents so richly rewarded - especially in politics and the media - as the ability to portray parasites as victims, and portray demands for preferential treatment as struggles for equal rights. Thomas Sowell mediastrugglerights Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. Thomas Sowell differenthelpingway The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books? Thomas Sowell ghettohypocritebook Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. Thomas Sowell usapoliticalamerica I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. Thomas Sowell greedmoneywant It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. Thomas Sowell panichypocritemen A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation. Thomas Sowell jobsmenschool Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Thomas Sowell recordslibertyintellectual One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence. Thomas Sowell nicegracepeople 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 teachingteacherchildren What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a Thomas Sowell succeedtakenpeople 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 rightssheeppeople Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. Thomas Sowell gdplibertypast 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 importantstupidideas 'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'. Thomas Sowell partygovernmentmean
