People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
THOMAS SOWELLThe 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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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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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 problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.
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What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
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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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