Economics is more than just a way to see patterns or to unravel puzzling anomalies.
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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The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better.
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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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Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.
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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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When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
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We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
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Age gives you an excuse for not being very good at things that you were not very good at when you were young.
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Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty.
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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 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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If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
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It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
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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.
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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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Heedless of the past, we are flying blind into the future.
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