We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
THOMAS SOWELLTalkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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What 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.
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