People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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