Over at PJMedia, John Hawkins (who seems to have been appointed List Master there) has compiled a list of “Best Thomas Sowell Quotes“.
All of them are good. My favorite, because I’m a.) an historian and b.) conservative, is this one:
“For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.”
Yup. The quote goes perfectly with Cicero’s immortal words:
“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?”
Call it a twofer.
Every one of them is a gem.
My favorite is one that paraphrases Orwell:
“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQ’s.”
Or, as seen on a can-caddy:
“To err is human, to really fuck up, you need a computer.”