It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
THOMAS SOWELLJustice at all costs’ is not justice.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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