Music It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. Thomas Sowell 14
Business If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that... Thomas Sowell 22
Peace Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about... Thomas Sowell 15
Freedom Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. Thomas Sowell 15
Freedom What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it.... Thomas Sowell 15
People Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do... Thomas Sowell 32
Trust One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous... Thomas Sowell 15