Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
THOMAS SOWELLMuch of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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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.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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