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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

Thomas Sowell

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Decide Economics Inspirational Liberty
Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Cost Deep Injustice Justice One Liner
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Discrimination People Politics Treatment
I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
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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Freedom Government Liberty Money People World
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.

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