If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
THOMAS SOWELLRhetoric is no substitute for reality.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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