To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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