There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs. 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 racist conservative racism 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 gay mean believe Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days. Thomas Sowell different-day different men 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-correct libertarian remember It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law. Thomas Sowell government law thinking 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 media struggle rights Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. Thomas Sowell different helping way 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 ghetto hypocrite book Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected. Thomas Sowell usa political america If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism. Thomas Sowell gun use civilization 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 greed money want It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. Thomas Sowell panic hypocrite men 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 jobs men school Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. Thomas Sowell records liberty intellectual 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 nice grace people 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 teaching teacher children 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 succeed taken people 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 rights sheep people 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 gdp liberty past 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 important stupid ideas
