Thomas Sowell

“People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.”

“One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.”

“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.”

“Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.”

“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”