Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
THOMAS SOWELLThe 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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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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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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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 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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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