Thomas Sowell

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.