Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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