903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.

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

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Those who cry out that the government should 'do something' never even ask for data on what has actually happened when the government did something, compared to what actually happened when the government did nothing.

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.