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.
THOMAS SOWELLAge gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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