It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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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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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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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