Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLEach new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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