Thomas Sowell Quotes

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

Liberals stand for tolerance, magnanimity, community spirit, the defense of the weak against the powerful, love of learning, freedom of belief, art and poetry, city life, the very things that make life worth dying for. Conservatives stand for tax cuts … and use of the tax refund to buy a gun and an attack dog to take with you when you drive your all-terrain vehicle through the barriers of Republicanville.

My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

We don't need bipartisanship, we need application of principle.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion.

What President Bush has done speaks more than words about his feeling of compassion and commitment to people.

The idea that liberal societies are bound together by philosophical beliefs seems to me to be ludicrous. Philosophy is not that important to politics.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

Conservatives put the law before the man. Progressives put the man before the law.

A society with no values outside of politics is a machine carrying its human cargo, with no purpose in its institutions reflecting their care, eternal aspirations, loneliness, need for love.