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.
THOMAS SOWELLA 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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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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 are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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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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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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