Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
THOMAS SOWELLIf you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else’s expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.
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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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Everyone may be called “comrade,” but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades.
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The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
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I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.
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Intellect is not wisdom.
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The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
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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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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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No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.
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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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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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I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.
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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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What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.
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One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
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