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Take Quotes by Thomas Sowell
- 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…
- If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when…
- The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it…
- Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the…
- 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…
- The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have…
- Each day, as I take various pills, I realize that without those pills I might not be alive -- and, if I were, life would…
- Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower…
- Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
- Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
- It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
- I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody…
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