Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLSince this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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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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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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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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