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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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 has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.
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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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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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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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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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