Top 100 Quotes by Thomas Sowell

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

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

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

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

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.