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.
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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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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 is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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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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Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
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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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