People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
THOMAS SOWELLThe next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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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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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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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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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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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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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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The government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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