Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
THOMAS SOWELLThe 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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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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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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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth – anonymously and posthumously.
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
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Freedom must be distinguished from democracy, with which it is often confused.
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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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A society that puts equality – in the sense of equality of outcome – ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with preconceptions, but not when they don’t.
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
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