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.
THOMAS SOWELLNothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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