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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

Thomas Sowell

When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

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