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 SOWELLTalkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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 media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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