Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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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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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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