Sowell says

Nothing is easier for a politician than promising government benefits that cannot be delivered.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) January 25, 2023

Sowell says

One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans—anything except reason.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 13, 2023

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If you put $1,000 in your piggy bank in 1960 and took it out to spend in 2000, you would discover that your money had, over time, lost 80 percent of its value.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 11, 2023

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History shows that degeneracy can be turned around because it has been done in the past. But the real question today is: Will we turn it around—or is what we are doing likely to make matters worse?

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 9, 2023

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Few guys from my old neighborhood were likely to end up as violinists or ballet dancers, simply because that was not what they were interested in.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) January 4, 2023

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Liberals try to show their concern for the poor by raising the level of minimum wage laws. Yet they show no interest in hard evidence that minimum wage laws create disastrous levels of unemployment among young blacks in this country.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 30, 2022

Sowell says

My favorite New Year's resolution was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. This has reduced both my correspondence and my blood pressure.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 27, 2022

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the new nomenklatura go around feeling good about themselves while leaving havoc in their wake.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

Sowell says

The green ideology of today, like the red ideology of the past, assumes that other people do not have the same rights as the new nomenklatura.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

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all off-limits to the masses.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

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One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness & callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

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Soviet communism is now history but ppl who talk equality and practice elitism, who wrap their own selfishness in the mantle of idealism, and who sacrifice others on the altar of their own vision without hesitation are not only still with us but have become the norm on the left.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

Sowell says

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

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 9, 2022

Sowell says

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failures or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 5, 2022

Sowell says

Trust is one of those things that is much easier to maintain than it is to repair.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 3, 2022

Sowell says

People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good riddance"?

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 8, 2022

Sowell says

Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 2, 2022

Sowell says

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) December 1, 2022

Sowell says

It is amazing how many people seem to think that the
government exists to turn their prejudices into laws.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) November 15, 2022

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Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years.

— Thomas Sowell Wisdom (@TheThomasSowell) November 15, 2022