Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Thomas SowellA friend from India told me that a countryman of his said: "I want to go to America. I want to see a country where poor people are fat."
Thomas SowellJust as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.
Thomas SowellSomeone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?
Thomas Sowell