It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
THOMAS SOWELLFor the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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 so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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