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- Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
- The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You…
- Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
- The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
- The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people…
- The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media.…
- The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices…
- If the truth is boring, civilization is irksome. The constraints inherent in civilized living are frustrating in innumerable ways. Yet those with the vision of…
- It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
- In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice'…
- Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop…
- Once you buy the argument that some segment of the citizenry should lose their rights, just because they are envied or resented, you are putting…
- The murder of a dozen innocent people is unquestionably a human tragedy. But that is no excuse for reacting blindly by preventing hundreds of thousands…
- In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to…
- Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from…
- Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would…
- The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by…
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits result…
- Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
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