Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
Thomas SowellThe simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
Thomas SowellClearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
Thomas SowellThe desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
Thomas Sowell