To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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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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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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