The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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