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.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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 question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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 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.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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 matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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