Thomas Sowell Quotes
"Racism is not dead, but it is on life support kept alive by politicians, race hustlers, and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as racists""When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination""Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric""Policies are judged by their consequences, but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel""It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong""The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best""You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing""One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people’s motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason""People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do""It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance""Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late""The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings""There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs""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""Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it""Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good""The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics""People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything"