Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
THOMAS SOWELLLife does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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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.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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