Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on June 7, 2026
… is from page 59 of Thomas Sowell’s 1999 book, Barbarians Inside the Gates:
If one confused word can gum up social policies, the legal system, and innumerable institutions throughout society, that word is “equality.” It is one of those vague pieties in which we indulge ourselves, without any serious thought as to what it means or what the actual consequences of pursuing it may be.
