Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
THOMAS SOWELLNo 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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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 fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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