There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
THOMAS SOWELLAs 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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