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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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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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Economics Equality Justice People Politics Power
Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Blind Fly Future Past
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Economics Pattern Puzzle
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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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