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- People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one-tenth of…
- If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child…
- 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…
- For society as a whole, nothing comes as a "right" to which we are "entitled." Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a…
- Politicians are forever coming up with 'solutions' to virtually every imaginable imperfection in life. But, if we give them more power and more of our…
- Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are…
- You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis.
- Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man,…
- Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western…
- You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
- Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.
- Barack Obama has done more than anyone else to promote the dangerous illusion that we can choose whether to have a war or not. But…
- Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits.…
- 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.…
- 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'…
- What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly…
- The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside…
- ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize…
- When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was…
- The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that…
- Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
- 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…
- Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
- The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population.…
- Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an Edison…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle