If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
THOMAS SOWELLFor 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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