Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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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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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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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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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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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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