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.
THOMAS SOWELLOne of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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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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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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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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