It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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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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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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