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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

Thomas Sowell

It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Blame Century Choose Culture Past
We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.

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