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.
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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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
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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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No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.
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What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?
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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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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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Justice at all costs’ is not justice.
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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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As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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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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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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Government “planning” is not an alternative to chaos. It is a pre-emption of other people’s plans.
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?
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Economics is a study of cause and effect relationships in an economy.
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