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- Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
- Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
- 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…
- There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
- Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if…
- Even the Soviet Union, with its huge nuclear arsenal, was a threat that could be deterred by the prospect of retaliation. But suicide bombers cannot…
- Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only…
- Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all…
- Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.
- Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force
- Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an…
- Considering how often throughout history even intelligent people have been proved to be wrong, it is amazing that there are still people who are convinced…
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- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle