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.
THOMAS SOWELLClearly, 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.
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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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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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