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Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Mouths, Taxpayers, Donate

Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved.

Race, Media, Black Youth

"Social Degeneration: Part III" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 16, 2011.

Perhaps people who are gushing over the Obama Cult today might do well to stop and think about what it would mean for their granddaughters to live under Sharia law.

Mean, Thinking, Law

The income tax has spawned an intrusive bureaucracy, creating so much complexity and red tape that millions of ordinary citizens have to go get some accountant to fill out the forms for them - and then sign under penalty of perjury that it was done right. If you knew how to do it right, you wouldn't have to go to somebody else to have it done, would you?

Creating, Ordinary, Income

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

United States, Done, Pieces

The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that is causing such hysteria, we have only a movie made by a politician and mathematical models whose results change drastically when you change a few of the arbitrarily selected variables.

Hysteria, Differences, Holocaust

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". Thomas Sowell .

Couple, Men, Ideas

If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working.

Children, Day Care, Parent

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.319, Hoover Press

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.

Baby, Years, Liberty

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?

Race, Blood, Political

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

Government, Libertarian Party, Long

Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

Reality is not optional.

Reality, Optional

"Riots in France" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 8, 2005.

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

Safety, Car, Realizing

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact.

Science, Opposites, Experts

Thomas Sowell (1995). “The Vision of the Anointed: Self-congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy”, p.102, Basic Books

Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue is not what various journalists or news organizations' editorial views are. The issue is the transformation of news reporting into ideological spin, along with self-serving taboos and outright fraud.

News Stories, Self, Views

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.

Truth, Smart, Knowledge

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.318, Hoover Press

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Country, Attitude, Long

The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

Hands, Order, Deserve You

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.59, Hoover Press

The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.

America, Chance, Live Your Own Life

People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge.

Ignorance, Average, People

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Winning, Civilization, Battle

Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

Government, People, United States

The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people.

Couple, Rap, School

An inmate in a Florida prison wrote to agree with me on the availability of guns, saying that a 'criminal can and will get a stolen gun faster than you can get your car washed.' He also points out that many criminals prefer guns gotten illegally, since they will be harder to trace.

Gun, Availability, Florida

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Past, Vision, Ministry

Thomas Sowell (2010). “Black Rednecks and White Liberals”, p.376, ReadHowYouWant.com

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