No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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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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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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