Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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 most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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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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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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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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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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