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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.

Thomas Sowell

What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Character Management Racism Record Time
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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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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 history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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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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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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