If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
THOMAS SOWELLPeople 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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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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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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It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal.
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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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The only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don’t want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds.
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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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If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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