Thomas Sowell

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#education #expensive #isolation #little #more

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#dangerous #decisions #hands #hard #imagine

Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#april #being #big #day #discourage

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#appreciate #common #dangerous #dishonorable #failings

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#could #evade #failure #general #ignore

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#assume #believe #care #claim #help

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#decades #good #history #much #over

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#balanced #budgets #cover #ever #goal

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ask #department #diversity #how #important