Thomas Sowell is an American economist and social theorist who is currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. These inspirational Thomas Sowell Quotes will change your life.
Best Thomas Sowell Quotes
- “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.” – Thomas Sowell
- “When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” – Thomas Sowell
- “No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.” – Thomas Sowell
- “When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.” – Thomas Sowell
- “You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.” – Thomas Sowell
- “To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.” – Thomas Sowell
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“What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?” – Thomas Sowell
- “The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.'” – Thomas Sowell
- “It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.” – Thomas Sowell
- “The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.” – Thomas Sowell
- “In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.” – Thomas Sowell
- “It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.” – Thomas Sowell
- “A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you’re talking about.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Intellect is not wisdom.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.” – Thomas Sowell
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“Envy plus rhetoric equals “social justice.” – Thomas Sowell
- “If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” – Thomas Sowell
- “I’m so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Envy is always referred to by its political alias, ‘social justice.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency.” – Thomas Sowell
- “‘Global warming’ is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.” – Thomas Sowell
- “It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” – Thomas Sowell
- “The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.” – Thomas Sowell
- “It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.” – Thomas Sowell
- “There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.” – Thomas Sowell
- “The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.” – Thomas Sowell
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“Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” – Thomas Sowell
- “…Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes” – Thomas Sowell
- “There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.” – Thomas Sowell
- “Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.” – Thomas Sowell
- “There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.” – Thomas Sowell
