Quotes by Thomas Sowell

“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them”

“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain”

“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason”

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do”

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

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone elses expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves”

“Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home, says: No man should have so much. The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: All men should have so much.”

“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on income distribution, the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”

“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

“Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death”

“Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone”

“There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.”

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

“Most people who read The Communist Manifesto probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of the workers.”

“Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”

“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. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to help.”

“Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true”

“Tough times are there so you can have a good time later on-- and really appreciate it!”

“Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers”

“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing”