It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
THOMAS SOWELLSocialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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