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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Thomas Sowell

Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Comformist Tired
Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Confuse Democracy Different Freedom
Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Competition Consumer Effect Government Job Protect
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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Deed Hope Pain People Record Surprise
Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Death Friendship Life Partner Power
A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Ending Equality Freedom Society
It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Deep Difference Equality Himself Justice Man
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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Achievement Consider Inspirational Old People Remember
A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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Decision Insight Knowledge Society Talent Throw
No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Compassion Law People Tax
Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Deep Healing Inspirational Life Option Want
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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Decade Goodness History Past replace Social World
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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