The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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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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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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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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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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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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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 government is indeed an institution, but “the market” is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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 people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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