903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.

Among the precepts that Andrew Jackson’s mother taught him were never to sue anybody for slander or for assault and battery: “Always settle them cases yourself.

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?

A friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: “I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat.”

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.

If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices – paid by others.

People used to say, “Ignorance is no excuse.” Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have “a right to your own opinion” – and self-esteem to boot.