Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
THOMAS SOWELL
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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 media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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