Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
THOMAS SOWELLNo-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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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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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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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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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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