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.
THOMAS SOWELL
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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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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 pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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