Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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