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.
THOMAS SOWELLBailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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