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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.

Thomas Sowell

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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