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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.

Thomas Sowell

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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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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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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