Intellect is not wisdom.
THOMAS SOWELLFreedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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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 most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
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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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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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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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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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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Reality does not go away when it is ignored.
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