Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
THOMAS SOWELLLiberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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