Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
THOMAS SOWELLWhen people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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