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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.

Thomas Sowell

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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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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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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
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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 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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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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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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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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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’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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