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.
THOMAS SOWELLSuppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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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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Intellect is not wisdom.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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