Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell
Although the big word on the left is ‘compassion,’ the big agenda on the left is dependency. – Thomas Sowell
Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens. – Thomas Sowell
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction. – Thomas Sowell
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. – Thomas Sowell
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. – Thomas Sowell
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. – Thomas Sowell
Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. – Thomas Sowell
The biggest and most deadly ‘tax’ rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits – food stamps, housing subsidies and the like – if their income goes up. – Thomas Sowell
The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything – and demanding evidence makes you a ‘racist.’ – Thomas Sowell
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do. – Thomas Sowell
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. – Thomas Sowell
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. – Thomas Sowell
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. – Thomas Sowell
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting ‘the rich’ to pay ‘their fair share’ is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. – Thomas Sowell
Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them. – Thomas Sowell
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. – Thomas Sowell
Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. – Thomas Sowell
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. – Thomas Sowell
Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. – Thomas Sowell
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. – Thomas Sowell
If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. – Thomas Sowell
President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again. – Thomas Sowell
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts. – Thomas Sowell
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help. – Thomas Sowell
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. – Thomas Sowell
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing. – Thomas Sowell
