Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
THOMAS SOWELLExtrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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