Thomas Sowell Quotes

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.

The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.

If a free society is ever destroyed in America, it will be done in the name of one particular vision of liberty and freedom.

Communism is the wave of the past, and freedom is the wave of the future.

In every society liberals are not very popular. Liberalism is not a populist movement.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

Well-intentioned liberalism always leads to progressivism. There's no choice there. Once that action is taken the only thing you can run on is totalitarianism - you have no choice.

We thought we'd leave communism behind, and everything would turn out fine. But it turns out you can't leave this and become free, because these people don't understand what freedom is.

Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.

Whenever all men are...hastening to be slaves or tyrants we make Liberalism the prime bogey.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

But there is a big difference in working for the West and working for a totalitarian state.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

I have lived under totalitarian Communism, so I prize freedom as much as anyone and have long fought for freedom of conscience and speech.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

I am a socialist, so I am not worried about socialism. I am worried about dictators who are putting everyone into a socialist state for their own benefit.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Being born in Cuba, a country where freedom of speech is non-existent, it's startling to observe how Venezuela, where I was happily raised, is fast becoming Cuba's mirror image: Dismantling of fundamental democratic rights deserved by its people and citizens of the world.