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.
THOMAS SOWELLWe should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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