The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. – Thomas Sowell
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. – Thomas Sowell
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they dont like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, dont expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill