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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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