Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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 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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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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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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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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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