Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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