It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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