Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions — and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in business.… - Thomas Sowell

A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.

"Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."

What socialism, fascism and other ideologies of the left have in common is an assumption that some very wise people—like themselves—need to take decisions out of the hands of lesser people, like the rest of us, and impose those decisions by government fiat.