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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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