People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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