Thomas Sowell Quotes

Things work well when a group of people know each other, and things break down when it's a bunch of random people interacting.

Loneliness is not a problem in traditional societies. People spend their lives in or near the place where they were born, and they remain surrounded by relatives and childhood companions.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

The most important institution in society is the family. If the family breaks down, society breaks down.

All societies are based on a sort of minimum level of communism. Otherwise, you couldn't have any social relations at all.

As a matter of fact, a modern society is many societies more or less loosely connected. Each household with its immediate extension of friends makes a society; the village or street group of playmates is a community; each business group, each club, is another.

But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals.

And again, this connection that you get: I meet Joe at church. Joe's connected to a whole network of people I don't know. Joe likes me. He invites me over to his son's birthday party, and I meet his whole family. I meet his friends. I get to know his neighborhood. That happens all the time.

Break up the institution of the family, deny the inviolability of its relations, and in a little while there would not be any humanity.

The family is the most important wealth of a nation. May we endeavor to defend and strengthen the foundation of society.

When I go back to any of the mini-series or series that I've done, the heart and soul of the show always centers around how the people that we love are affected by our decisions.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

All my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal lobes are just kidding themselves that they decide anything at all. All they do is think up reasons for the decisions that are already made.

No society can function as a society, unless it gives the individual member social status and function, and unless the decisive social power is legitimate.

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

Man is but a network of relationships and these alone matter to him.

No longer is someone coming to hire you, to invest in your company, to sign you, to pick you. It's on you to make the most important decision in your life: Choose Yourself!

It is very difficult to make really big, important, life-changing decisions because we are all susceptible to a formidable array of decision biases. There are more of them than we realize, and they come to visit us more often than we like to admit.

I trust voters. Voters decide on whatever basis they think is important to them. I just want them to have a full range of information to make that decision.

A community is made up of intimate relationships among diversified types of individuals--a kinship group, a local group, a neighborhood, a village, a large family.

I had a horrible life habit that I had to change. And I think it's very true, the later we make decisions in life that are important, the harder it is to manage those decisions.

We all say in our own lives that money isn't everything. Love matters, friendships matter. My relationship with my kids matters. It shouldn't be a giant leap to take that thought and introduce it into political dialogue

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

It really takes a community to raise children, no matter how much money one has. Nobody can do it well alone. And it's the bedrock security of community that we and our children need.