Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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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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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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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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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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