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.
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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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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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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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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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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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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