When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
THOMAS SOWELLIt’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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 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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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 fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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 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 most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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