Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
- Topic: Diversity
- Location: Zion National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Thomas Sowell
Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
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.
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 usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
More Quotes from Zion National Park
More on Diversity
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
The overwhelming importance of the atmosphere means that there are no longer any frontiers to defend against pollution, attack, or propaganda. It means, further, that only by a deep patriotic devotion to one’s country can there be a hope of the kind of protection of the whole planet, which is necessary for the survival of the people of other countries.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.
Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.