Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
THOMAS SOWELLThe question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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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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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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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.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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.
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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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