Sowell says

The only reward for putting up with craziness is more craziness.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 28, 2021

Sowell says

Evidence is too dangerous―politically, financially and psychologically―for some people to allow it to become a threat to their interests or to their sense of themselves.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 23, 2021

Sowell says

It is a painful irony that people who are promoting the make-believe equality of “inclusion” and “diversity” in schools are attacking charter schools that are producing the real equality of educational achievement.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 22, 2021

Sowell says

Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life's imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them. If that is your approach, then go straight to totalitarianism. Do not pass "Go." Do not collect $200.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 22, 2021

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The totalitarian mindset behind the liberal vision shows through in innumerable ways. There are no institutions in America where free speech is more severely restricted than in our politically correct colleges and universities, dominated by liberals.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 20, 2021

Sowell says

The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 16, 2021

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The political left's attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 15, 2021

Sowell says

The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 15, 2021

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Since blacks and whites both have to show photo I.D. for everything from cashing checks to getting on a plane, why has requiring a photo I.D. for voting caused such shrill outcries?https://t.co/xeWwGe5oMU

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 13, 2021

Sowell says

Someone once said that a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can put it on for him. The implications of that undermine most of the agenda of the political left.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 12, 2021

Sowell says

I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal, and when common decency was actually common.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) July 1, 2021

Sowell says

At one time, educators boasted that their role was not to teach students what to think but how to think. Today, their role is far too often to teach students what to think on everything from immigration to global warming to the new sacred trinity of "race, class and gender."

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 11, 2021

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Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentments of other people’s achievements — and a feeling that the world owes you something, while you owe nobody anything, not even common decency.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) July 1, 2021

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No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems—of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 7, 2021

Sowell says

Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentments of other people’s achievements — and a feeling that the world owes you something, while you owe nobody anything, not even common decency.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) July 1, 2021

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Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) July 1, 2021

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Some Americans will never appreciate America, until after they have helped destroy it, and have then begun to suffer the consequences.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 4, 2021

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Advice to the young: You don’t have to listen to anybody. You can learn everything from your own personal experience. Of course, you will be at least 50 years old by the time you know what you need to know at 25.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) July 1, 2021

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The idea that the wise and knowledgeable few need to take control of the less wise and less knowledgeable many has taken milder forms– and repeatedly with bad results as well.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) June 29, 2021

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One of the biggest fallacies of our time is the notion that, if all groups are not proportionally represented in institutions, professions or income levels, that shows something wrong with society.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) June 29, 2021