It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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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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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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