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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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 people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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