Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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 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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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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 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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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