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?
THOMAS SOWELLPeople who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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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 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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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