903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

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.

If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.

In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a 'clarification' when people realize what was said.

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produceaccounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Disagree with someone on the right and he is likely to think you obtuse, wrong, foolish, a dope. Disagree with someone on the left, and he is more likely to think you selfish, a sell-out, insensitive, possibly evil.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites

What do you call it when someone steals money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes money by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money and gives it to someone likely to vote for him? Social Justice.