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
Thomas Sowell quotes about
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.
country strong gun
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
mean technology opposites
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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.
war government black
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to “help.”
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.
fate people tragedy
The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands of other people from defending themselves against meeting the same fate.
identity remember trouble
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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.
zero real minimum-wage
The real minimum wage is zero.
philosophy alternatives purpose
Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
blood race political
What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
fashion government taste
The government is indeed an institution, but "the market" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
government wish facts
The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.