Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLAs history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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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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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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