The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
Thomas SowellAll things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Thomas SowellThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
Thomas SowellSome of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Thomas SowellDuring the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food.
Thomas Sowell