… is from page 231 of Thomas Sowell’s March 17th, 1986, column titled “An ‘Epidemic’ of Irresponsibility” as this column is reprinted in Compassion Versus Guilt, a 1987 collection of some of Sowell’s popular essays:
Personal responsibility is anathema to deep thinkers, for that would undermine their role as rescuers of the “victims” of society.
