Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
THOMAS SOWELLNo matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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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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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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