No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
THOMAS SOWELLJustice at all costs’ is not justice.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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