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

Thomas Sowell

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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Hand People Time Waste Wasted Time Work
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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Fiction Journalist Media Perform Reality Window
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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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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 is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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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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No government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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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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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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