No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
THOMAS SOWELLNo one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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