It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
THOMAS SOWELLThe problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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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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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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