The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.
Thomas SowellThe least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.
Thomas SowellA recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was. In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation.
Thomas SowellWhat then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
Thomas Sowell