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.
THOMAS SOWELLFailure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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