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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

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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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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 usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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