The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
THOMAS SOWELLThe only people I truly envy are those who can play a musical instrument and those who can eat anything they want without gaining weight.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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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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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The history of which peoples, nations, or civilizations have conquered or enslaved which other peoples, nations, or civilizations has been largely a history of who has been in a position to do so.
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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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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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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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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 next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
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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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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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