#heir

The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ask #department #diversity #how #important

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#chances #getting #increase #liberal #life

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#control #dent #facts #gun #gun control

Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#doers #more #since #specialty #talk

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#america #ancestors #been #born #descendants

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#conservatives #donate #higher #identify #incomes

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

— Thomas Sowell

#inevitably #people #their #time #waste

I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#get #i #learned #machine #morning

I can't get a relationship to last longer than it takes to make copies of their tapes. ↗

— Margaret Smith

#get #i #last #longer #make

It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#got #haven #heads #idea #just