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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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 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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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