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.
THOMAS SOWELLWhenever 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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