Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history.
Thomas SowellAll justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
Thomas SowellTime was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
Thomas SowellCentral planning, judicial activism, and the nanny state all presume vastly more knowledge than any elite have ever possessed.
Thomas Sowell