When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
THOMAS SOWELLEconomics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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 media are less a window on reality, than a stage on which officials and journalists perform self-scripted, self-serving fictions.
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Many on the political left are so entranced by the beauty of their vision that they cannot see the ugly reality they are creating in the real world.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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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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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.
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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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People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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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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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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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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Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers.
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When people are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.
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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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