Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
THOMAS SOWELLSome people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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The purpose of education is to give the student the intellectual tools to analyze, whether verbally or numerically, and to reach conclusions based on logic and evidence.
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