Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
Economist
University Teacher
Gastonia
North Carolina
Would
Standards
Labeled
Politics
Judged
Everyone
Racist
Political
Liberal
Today
Gotten
Play
Radical
Years
Believed
Always
Rules
More quotes by Thomas Sowell
Government central planning means over-riding other people's plans.
Thomas Sowell
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
Thomas Sowell
The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is he confuses it with feeling.
Thomas Sowell
Any judicial nominee who has said that the Constitution means what it says, not what judges would like it to mean, is going to be called an 'extremist.' That person will be said to be 'out of the mainstream.' But the mainstream is itself the problem.
Thomas Sowell
Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.
Thomas Sowell
The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.
Thomas Sowell
Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?.
Thomas Sowell
One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.
Thomas Sowell
Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected.
Thomas Sowell
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
Thomas Sowell
You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.
Thomas Sowell
More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?
Thomas Sowell
Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
Thomas Sowell
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?
Thomas Sowell
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.
Thomas Sowell
Don't you get tired of seeing so many non-conformists with the same non-conformist look?
Thomas Sowell
The great allure of government programs in general for many people is that these programs allow decisions to be made without having to worry about the constraints of prices, which confront people at every turn in a free market.
Thomas Sowell
The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
Thomas Sowell