Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowellis an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 June 1930
CityGastonia, NC
CountryUnited States of America
funny laughter ignorance
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
law world response
When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.
political sense-of-humor ifs
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
track worry political
Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.
numbers finite-number desire
The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
country attitude long
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
blood agony agonizing
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
philosophy political income-distribution
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
diversity important liberty
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
lessons politics want
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.
ignorance average people
People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.
government people vote
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
government libertarian-party long
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
justice people political
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?