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 SOWELLPeople who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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