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

Thomas Sowell

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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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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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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 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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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