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.
THOMAS SOWELLThe media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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 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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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