Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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 first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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 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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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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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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