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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

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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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