Thomas Sowell Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Justice, Vote

• The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hands, Order, Deserve You

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Controversial Essays”, p.59, Hoover Press

• So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.

  Thomas Sowell

  Giving, Justice, Leader

• A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you're talking about.

  Thomas Sowell

  Commitment, Talking, Knowing

• Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Justice, Political

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

• Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

  Thomas Sowell

  Dwarves, Creating, Justice

• Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Social

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “The Thomas Sowell Reader”, p.399, Basic Books

• Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Reality, Thinking

• Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice.

  Thomas Sowell

  Envy, Justice, Political

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.44, ReadHowYouWant.com

• What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Want Something, Justice

• In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise.

  Thomas Sowell

  Justice, Cost, May

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

• When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agency, Rights, Race

• Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued.

  Thomas Sowell

  Black And White, Differences, Justice

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

• All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?

  Thomas Sowell

  Islands, Justice, Desert

  Thomas Sowell (2001). “The Quest for Cosmic Justice”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

• The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Ideas, Justice

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