Maverick Quotes

“Boettke cited Sowell’s remark that the first rule of economics is scarcity—there’s never enough of anything to placate all those who want it—and the first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“I often tell people that if you think Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones represent the views of most black people, you need to get to know more black people (from an Imprimis publication)”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“Sowell on the history of all-black Dunbar High School in Washington, DC, which had outperformed its local white counterparts and repeatedly equaled or exceeded national norms on standardized tests throughout the first half of the twentieth century.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“Historical revisionists who interpret past events to fit a certain ideology deserve derision. But Sowell had a different goal, which was to guard against misreading the past and formulating policies based on propositions that are no longer true or perhaps never were.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“Sowell’s very first academic post was at Douglass College, a women’s college at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where he was hired in 1962 to teach economics.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“I am more inclined to the opinion (and the example) of Milton Friedman, that some individuals can contribute more by staying out of government.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“I’m not sure I want to be particularly remembered. I would like the ideas that I’ve put out there to be remembered.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell

“But disagreements can be productive, while misunderstandings seldom are.”
― Jason L. Riley, Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell