Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
THOMAS SOWELLExtrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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