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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

Thomas Sowell

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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.

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