903 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

Barack Obama’s vision of America is one in which a President of the United States can fire the head of General Motors, tell banks how to bank, control the medical system and take charge of all sorts of other activities for which neither he nor other politicians have any expertise or experience.

What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people’s plans by Government officials.

Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.

It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else’s opinion.

The only thing better than “hands-on” experience is hands-off experience – enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

If you are serious about education, then you need to start a lot earlier than fifteen years old to give each child a decent shot at life in the real world, as distinguished from make-believe equality while in school. Ability grouping or “tracking” – so hated by the ideological egalitarians – is one of the best ways of doing that.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to “empathy”.

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.