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What 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.

Thomas Sowell

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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People 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.
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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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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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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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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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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights.
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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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When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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What 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.

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What 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.

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