Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
THOMAS SOWELL
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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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