Sowell says

One of the secrets of successful magicians on stage is directing the audience’s attention to something that is attractive or distracting, but irrelevant to what is actually being done. That is also the secret of successful political charlatans.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) October 20, 2021

Sowell says

Tragically, too many of us are apparently willing to be sheep, in exchange for being taken care of, being relieved of the burdens of adult responsibility and being supplied with “free” stuff paid for by others.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) October 20, 2021

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The Great Depression of the 1930s, in which millions of people were plunged into poverty in even the most prosperous nations, was needlessly prolonged by government policies now recognized in retrospect as foolish and irresponsible.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) October 20, 2021

Sowell says

Yes, we all make mistakes. But do governments not make bigger and more catastrophic mistakes?

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) October 20, 2021

Sowell says

Implicit in the wide range of efforts on the left to get government to take over more of our decisions for us is the assumption that there is some superior class of people who are either wiser or nobler than the rest of us.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) October 20, 2021

Sowell says

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.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 15, 2021

Sowell says

Wherever you get enough far left people in power, you can find a similar willingness to force everyone into collectivist conformity at all costs.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 13, 2021

Sowell says

Freedom ultimately means the right of other people to do things that you do not approve of.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 12, 2021

Sowell says

The problem with trying to equalize is that you can usually only equalize downward.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 12, 2021

Sowell says

It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 9, 2021

Sowell says

One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 8, 2021

Sowell says

What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people — like themselves — need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 5, 2021

Sowell says

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do. The price of their self-indulgence is the sacrifice of our freedom. If we don’t defend ourselves against them, who will?

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 3, 2021

Sowell says

What does "economic justice" mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) October 1, 2021

Sowell says

One of the biggest taxes is one that is not even called a tax — inflation. When the government spends money that it creates, it is transferring part of the value of your money to themselves.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 29, 2021

Sowell says

Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers' money "investment," even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 28, 2021

Sowell says

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayers' money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 28, 2021

Sowell says

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 27, 2021

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I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 24, 2021

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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) September 24, 2021