Thomas Sowell Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Diversity, Important, Liberty

  "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.

• Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of "diversity" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen — written in blood — from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.

  Thomas Sowell

  Blood, Years, Iraq

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.

  Thomas Sowell

  Social Values, Safety, Diversity

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.110, Basic Books

• Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Diversity, Parent

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

• To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.

  Thomas Sowell

  Self, Diversity, Black

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