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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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 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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

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