The really painful surprise is that so many people based their hopes on his words, rather than on the record of his deeds.
THOMAS SOWELLIt 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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.
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What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.
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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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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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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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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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Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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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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The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves.
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Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible.
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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 government of the left has done as much for the poor as capitalism has. Even when it comes to the redistribution of income, the left talks the talk but the free market walks the walk.
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It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word.
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