903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

Facts are not liberals' strong suit. Rhetoric is.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.