Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

Thomas Sowell

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Thomas Sowell

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Thomas Sowell

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.

Thomas Sowell

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.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results.

Thomas Sowell

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Thomas Sowell

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

Thomas Sowell

Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.

Thomas Sowell

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Thomas Sowell

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Thomas Sowell