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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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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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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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Failure is part of the natural cycle of business. Companies are born, companies die, capitalism moves forward.
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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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Racism does not have a good track record. It’s been tried out for a long time and you’d think by now we’d want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.
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Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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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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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.
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Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
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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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