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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

Thomas Sowell

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.

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