"Blindly processing more people through schools may not promote economic development, and may well increase political instability. A society can be made ungovernable by the impossibility of satisfying those with a passionate sense of entitlement - and without the skills or diligence to create the national wealth from which to redeem these expectations."
- Thomas Sowell, "Race and Culture" p. 184
"The individual black workman is rated not by his own efficiency, but by the efficiency of a whole group of black fellow workmen, which may often be low. If white people were to lose their racial prejudices overnight, this would make very little immediate difference in the economic condition of most blacks. Some few would be promoted, some few would get new places, but the mass would remain as they are, until the younger generation began to try harder, and until the idle and discouraged were stimulated and the whole race lost the omnipresent excuse for failure: prejudice."
- W.E.B. DuBois as quoted by Thomas Sowell in "Race and Culture" p. 90
"The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."
- Maximilian Robespierre
"The more dangerous kind of ignorance is the ignorance of the educated."
- Thomas Sowell, "Race and Culture" p. 102
