Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell was an African-American born on June 30, 1930 in Gastonia, North Carolina, United States. He is an economist, political philosopher, social theorist and author. His father died before he was born. He was adopted by his great aunt and her two grown daughters. He got very limited encounters with whites during childhood. At the age of nine he moved to Harlem, a neighborhood of the New York City. There he attended the selective Stuyvesant High School. But he had Read More...
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.- Thomas Sowell
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they do not like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, do not expect freedom to survive very long.
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
The real minimum wage is zero.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
The problem is not that Johnny can't read. The problem is not even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
