903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

We should listen first and foremost to our own experience We should stop looking for saviors.Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.

With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.

If sanity ever returns to our society and we stop taking pretentious elites seriously, one of the signs will be that the public will force the removal of those ugly pieces of twisted metal that are called 'art' in front of government buildings.

All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.