If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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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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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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