Thomas Sowell Quotes

I don't think there is a single social issue I haven't spoken on.

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.

One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

The government doesn't have to solve everyone's problem here.

For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.

My effectiveness is best placed in solving problems through federal solutions.

They could not listen to my on such a dry subject as the welfare of the nation until they had had something to drink.

The illegitimacy rate is going up every year. If you expect a government program to change that, you know more about government programs than I do.

The very nature of the government, and the direction it's been heading in for the past 40 years, is one of contrived government solutions to all the problems in the United States.

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.

I'll talk all this craziness in my music, but when I have your attention, and you're listening to me, I'll talk about what I want to talk about and what I think we need to address.

It's important to discuss the issues that we have in our country.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

I will never shy away from social issues in my books - or in my everyday life.

It's an artist's choice to speak up about social issues, but I think it's really important, and my favorite artists have spoken out.

The liberal party is a party which believes that, as new conditions an problems arise beyond the power of men and women to meet as individuals, it becomes the duty of the government itself to find new remedies with which to meet them.

Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing a law and voting some money. I think of this as the vending machine concept of social change. Put a coin in the machine and out comes a piece of candy. If there is a social problem, pass a law and out comes a solution.

I love how close you are to current affairs and social issues here in England. Out in L.A., you have to make an effort to look outside that little microcosm. It's almost like it's a virtual reality to imagine a problem there.

I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.

There's a social piece to what's going on in the Sugarland world, but we've never been a band that's political, and I maintain that.

To call someone like me a writer-activist suggests that it's not the job of a writer to write about the society in which they live. But it used to be our job.

I think it is important for me to speak out on social issues. Sometimes people will agree with me. Sometimes people will disagree with me. I don't take that personally.

Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.