To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
THOMAS SOWELLTo believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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Since 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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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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