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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Thomas Sowell

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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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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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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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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

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