Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
THOMAS SOWELL
The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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