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.
THOMAS SOWELLIf 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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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature.
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People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
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Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.
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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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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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