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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

Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Exploitation Reality Rhetoric Substitute
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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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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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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