Thomas Sowell Quotes

 It takes a lot of understanding to comprehend the depth of one's own insecurities. Elections should take place on the 16th of April, the day after we have paid our taxes. This is among the few factors that could hinder politicians from becoming big spenders.Socialism generally has a record of failure so blatant that it is impossible for an intelligent person to ignore or evade it.The next time you hear academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.The black family survived hundreds of years of slavery, and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of liberals expanding the welfare state.The first lesson of economics is that there is always a lack of something to satisfy everyone who desire it. Politics is the first lesson. The word "racism" is like ketchup. It can be put on almost anything, and insisting on evidence makes you a 'racist.'Each new generation that is born is in essence an invasion of the civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.Talkers are generally more articulate than people who do because they are their speciality. The majority of the history of social life in the Western world, over the past 30 years has been one of replacing what worked with what was good.The issue isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny isn't able to think. The issue is that Johnny does not know what thinking means and is confused with feeling.All times when liberals quote statistics, they ignore the warning of statisticians that correlation is not causation.The most basic fact about the ideas of the political left is that they don't perform. So we shouldn't be shocked to see the left confined to institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.