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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.

Thomas Sowell

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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