People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
THOMAS SOWELLNo one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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