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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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 welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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