Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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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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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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