Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
THOMAS SOWELLRhetoric is no substitute for reality.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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 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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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
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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 are presented with the alternatives of hating themselves for their failure or hating others for their success, they seldom choose to hate themselves.
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The 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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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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One of the consequences of such notions as ‘entitlements’ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.
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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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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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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.
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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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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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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
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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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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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No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.
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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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No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.
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