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.
THOMAS SOWELLWe 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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 first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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