When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
THOMAS SOWELLWhenever 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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 hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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