People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
THOMAS SOWELLIt is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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