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.
THOMAS SOWELLNo amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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 enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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The media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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