The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
Thomas SowellCompetition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
Thomas SowellI 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 SowellWhenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
Thomas SowellIt is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas SowellDon't you get tired of seeing so many "non-conformists" with the same non-conformist look?
Thomas SowellHowever much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.
Thomas SowellTags: civil-rights racism affirmative-action
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
Thomas SowellIf facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
Thomas SowellTags: social-sciences
Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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