Sowell says

Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

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

Sowell says

“When you want to help people, you
tell them the truth. When you want to
help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

Quoted in the book "Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell" by @jasonrileywsj https://t.co/eyd2GZcqan pic.twitter.com/exV8TSQjx7

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 14, 2022

Sowell says

If you were to give reparations to everyone whose ancestors had been slaves, I suspect that you would have to give reparations to more than half the entire population of the globe. Slavery was not confined to one set of races.
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— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 22, 2022

Sowell says

There are people who can neither find happiness in their own lives nor permit those around them to be happy. The best you can do is get such people out of your life.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 20, 2022

Sowell says

Only our own awareness of the huge stakes involved can save us from the rampaging presumptions of our betters, whether they are called socialists or fascists.
So long as we buy their heady rhetoric, we are selling our birthright of freedom.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

The left's vision is not only a vision of the world, but also a vision of themselves, as superior beings pursuing superior ends. In the United States, however, this vision conflicts with a Constitution that begins, "We the People…"

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

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 (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

The Left may say that they are not racists or anti-Semites, like Hitler, but neither was Mussolini or Franco. Hitler, incidentally, got some of his racist ideology from the writings of American “progressives” in the eugenics movement.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

If by conservatism you mean belief in free markets, limited government, and traditional morality, including religious influences, then these are all things that the Fascists opposed just as much as the Left does today.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

In short, during the 1920s and the early 1930s, Fascism was not only looked on favorably by the Left but recognized as having kindred ideas, agendas, and assumptions.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

Even the Nazi variant of Fascism found favor on the Left when it was only a movement seeking power in the 1920s.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

In Germany, the Nazis followed in the wake of the Italian Fascists, adding racism in general and anti-Semitism in particular, neither of which was part of Fascism in Italy or in Franco’s Spain.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

during the 1920s “progressives” in the United States and Britain recognized the kinship of their ideas with those of Mussolini, who was widely lionized by the Left.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Indeed, the whole Fascist economic agenda bears a remarkable resemblance to what liberals would later advocate.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

Unlike the Communists, the Fascists did not seek government ownership of the means of production. They just wanted the government to call the shots as to how businesses would be run.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

real Fascism was introduced into Italy after the First World War by Benito Mussolini.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

The Fascists were completely against individualism in general and especially against individualism in a free-market economy. Their agenda included minimum-wage laws, government restrictions on profit-making, progressive taxation of capital, and “rigidly secular” schools.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) September 11, 2022

Sowell says

One of the mysteries of the ages is why the political left has, for centuries, lavished so much attention on the well-being of criminals and paid so little attention to their victims.

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

Sowell says

The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science.

— Thomas Sowell Quotes (@ThomasSowell) September 6, 2022

Sowell says

The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices paid by others.

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

Sowell says

Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.

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

Sowell says

Free college of course has an appeal to the young, especially those who have never studied economics. But college cannot possibly be free. It would not be free even if there was no such thing as money.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) August 24, 2022