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.
THOMAS SOWELLIt takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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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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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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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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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 government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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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