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.
THOMAS SOWELLEveryone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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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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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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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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 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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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