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.
THOMAS SOWELLI 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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