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- Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of…
- Sports are the reason I am out of shape. I watch them all on TV.
- 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…
- The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
- So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them…
- Cheap medical care is one of the most expensive things there is. So long as politicians can create the illusion of something for nothing, that…
- 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…
- 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…
- The charge is often made against the intelligentsia and other members of the anointed that their theories and the policies based on them lack common…
- 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…
- It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area…
- Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.
- The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act…
- The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a…
- 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…
- If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays…
- 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…
- Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of…
- You can always create a fraction by putting one variable upstairs and another variable downstairs, but that soes not establish any causal relationship between them,…
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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