Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLWhat is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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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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Don’t you get tired of seeing so many “non-conformists” with the same non-conformist look?
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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 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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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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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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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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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We should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
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