"It is amazing how many people seem..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law.
More by Thomas Sowell
“Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.”
“The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.”
“When your response to everything that is wrong with the world is to say, 'there ought to be a law,' you are saying that you hold freedom very cheap.”
More on Government
“It [the Constitution] didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as it's been interpreted, and the Warren court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can't do to you, it says what the federal government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf. And that hasn't shifted.”
“The state was made for man, not man for state.”
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
More on Prejudice
“Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.”
“There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.”
“What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.”