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The word 'racism' is like ketc...

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

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The problem isn't that Johnny ...

The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

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Life in general has never been...

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

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As for gun control advocates, ...

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

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You will never understand bure...

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

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In liberal logic, if life is u...

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

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The least productive people ar...

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

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Do countries with strong gun c...

Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.

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Liberalism is totalitarianism ...

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

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The march of science and techn...

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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Balanced budget requirements s...

Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.

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The most basic question is not...

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

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Too much of what is called 'ed...

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Thomas Sowell 03.03.2018 03:03:03 713 quotes

One of the most pervasive poli...

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

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Capitalism knows only one colo...

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

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Mistakes can be corrected by t...

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

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What 'multiculturalism' boils ...

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

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Would you bet your paycheck on...

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

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The people made worse off by s...

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

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The real minimum wage is zero....

The real minimum wage is zero.

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