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Socialism in general has a rec...

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

The assumption that spending m...

The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to 'help.'

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

With various people complainin...

With various people complaining about 'price gougingЂќ... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: 'Tax gouging.' But government is never accused of either 'greed' or 'gouging' Ђ' not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn the land over to businesses that will pay more taxes.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

If the battle for civilization...

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

It is amazing that people who ...

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

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The welfare state is not reall...

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Various kinds of ideas can be ...

Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ('theories'), ideas not derived from any systematic process ('visions'), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ('illusions'), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ('myths'), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ('facts'), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

It is hard to imagine a more s...

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.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

One of the peculiarities of th...

One of the peculiarities of the American Revolution was that its leaders pinned their hopes on the organization of decision-making units, the structuring of their incentives, and the counterbalancing of the units against one another, rather than on the more usual (and more exciting) principle of substituting 'the good guys' for 'the bad guys.'.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

While rationalism at the indiv...

While rationalism at the individual level is a plea for more personal autonomy from cultural norms, at the social level it is often a claim- or arrogation- of power to stifle the autonomy of others.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Mystical references to 'socie...

Mystical references to 'society' and its programs to 'help' may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Freedom has cost too much bloo...

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

What is ominous is the ease wi...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

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To those who feel that their v...

To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of 'chaos,' simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more 'chaos' there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and 'waste') will be seen.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

'What freedom does a starving...

'What freedom does a starving man have?' The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

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Both free speech rights and pr...

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

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If you have ever seen a four-y...

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

The most fundamental fact abou...

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

Thomas Sowell 713 quotes

Much of the social history of ...

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

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What is politically defined as...

What is politically defined as economic 'planning' is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by government officials.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....