Thomas Sowell Quotes

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

Bull permeates everything.... American people think politics and politicians are full of baloney.

It is a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Politics is a sucker’s game …

The cynical impudence with which the reformers have tried to manufacture an ideal statesman out of the late shady politician beats anything in novel-writing. They are making popular capital. They lie and maneuver just like candidates for office. The independents and reformers are as bad as the late lamented, and for the same reason. It pays.[

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

I've never met a politician I haven't wanted to walk away from, and I've yet to hear a politician speak and actually believe the words coming out of his mouth.

Politics. The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

We suppose mankind more honest than they are.

… politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia

There is a lot of spinning and a lot of lying in our times—in politics, in government, in sports and everywhere. It’s gotten to the point where … you no longer believe the first version of anything. It wasn’t always that way. I guess it started for me with Vietnam, when the establishment felt it had to lie to justify a policy that as it turned out was never going to work.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

Party politics is now a real farce.

Let nothing dupe you! Such is the horrible maxim that acts as a solvent upon every noble feeling man experiences.

You know there's no crooked politicians. There's never a lie because there is never any truth.

The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.

We assume that all statements must be mild inversions of the truth, because it's too weird to imagine people who aren't casually lying, pretty much all the time.

Politicians are leeches, mostly.