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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

It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Literature Music Philosophy Value
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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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Closer Depression Hurt Responsible Situation
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
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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Complex People Pride Realize Simplicity Truth
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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Black Lives Matter Era Justice People Social
Intellect is not wisdom.
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Intelelct One Liner Wisdom
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
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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Explanation Help Let Go People Tuth Yourself
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Complain Government Money Politics Promise Vote
There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Conservative Solution Trade
One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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Book Causation Correlation Forget Statistics
The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Achievement Destroy Equality Freedom Interest People
No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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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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