Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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