Words of Wisdom from Thomas Sowell

"Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children."

"Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination."

"One of the signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonize those who complain."

"The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many conservatives there are in their sociology department."

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

"What exactly is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?"

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

"Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."

"We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."

"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."

"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly."

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."

No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."