Some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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More Quotes from Thomas Sowell
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
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.
More on Life
Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.
It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
Pain is certain, suffering is optional.
