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Thomas Sowell (/soʊl/; born June 30, 1930) is an American economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author.

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If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

Believe, Brotherhood Of Man, Man, Men, Racists, Whites

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

Idea, Ideas, Justice, Law, Under

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

Inspirational, Liberty, Libertarian, Basic, Question, Decide

It is amazing how many of the intelligentsia call it "greed" to want to keep what you have earned, but not greed to want to take away what somebody else has earned, and let politicians use it to buy votes.

Greed, Politicians, Somebody, Take, Use, Want

When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.

Law, Response, Say, World

Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody -- should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them.

Nothing, Parties, Party, Should, Think, Thinking

What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.

Condition, Instead, People, Political, Tend, Wise

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.

Gun, Civilization, Use, Accept, Defend

The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white - who find in that paranoid vision an excuse for counterproductive and ultimately self-destructive attitudes and behavior.

Attitude, Self, White, Ultimately, Vision, Behavior

Clearly, 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.

Equality, Intellectual, Moral, People, Want

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

Campus, Consequences, Needs, Resentment, Sense, Visit

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

Actions, Attitude, Counterproductive, Country, Long, Time

While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with 'empathy' for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society.

Everything, Government, Hands, Power, Ratify, Real

Some people say that taxes are the price we pay for civilization. But the runaway taxes of our time are the price we pay for being gullible.

Civilization, Pay, People, Price, Say

Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

Car, Pedestrians, Realizing, Safety, Threat

Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.

Government, Want, Government Officials, Officials, Unless, Stopped

More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them. Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct. But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?

Determine, Firsts, Income, People, Taxes

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

Brag, Enough, People, Remember

The grand delusion of contemporary liberals is that they have both the right and the ability to move their fellow creatures around like blocks of wood - and that the end results will be no different than if people had voluntarily chosen the same action

Ability, Block, Different, Move, Moving, People

We don‘t have faith that #freedom works. We have evidence.

Have Faith, Evidence, Works, Faith, Freedom

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