903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

The way to get people’s votes is to say that all their problems are caused by other people, and that you will stop those other people from giving them trouble. But if you really want to help, then you can tell them the truth and risk losing their votes.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

The massive ethnic communities that make up the mosaic of American society cannot be adequately described as “minorities.” There is no “majority.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, ’social justice.

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

If increased government spending with borrowed or newly created money is a ‘stimulus,’ then the Weimar Republic should have been stimulated to unprecedented prosperity, instead of runaway inflation and widespread economic desperation that ultimately brought Adolf Hitler to power.

People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, “What about the other 90 percent of the people?”