Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
THOMAS SOWELLEconomics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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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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The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barack Obama has a vision of Barack Obama.
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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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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 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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