Thomas Sowell

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

Thomas Sowell

Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Thomas Sowell

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Thomas Sowell

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Thomas Sowell

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

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

Thomas Sowell

Young people in general – and young women in particular – need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

Thomas Sowell