No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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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.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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For 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.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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