Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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