Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
THOMAS SOWELLThe really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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As an entrepreneur in India put it: ‘Indians have learned from painful experience that the state does not work on behalf of the people. More often than not, it works on behalf of itself.
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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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