When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
THOMAS SOWELLOne 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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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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We 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.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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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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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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What 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.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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