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.
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.
More Thomas Sowell Quotes
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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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If 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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People who pride themselves on their “complexity” and deride others for being “simplistic” should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
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Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
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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 has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
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Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
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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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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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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 doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
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Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.
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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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If politicians stopped meddling with things they don’t understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
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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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