Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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