“The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“If you’re not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren’t real.”
Edward Snowden
“No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.”
Thomas Sowell
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.”
Ronald Reagan
“There is really nothing that can be done except by an individual. Only individuals can learn. Only individuals can think creatively. Only individuals can cooperate. Only individuals can combat statism.”
Leonard Read
“Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”
Thomas Sowell
“Taxation is theft.”
Murray Rothbard
“Terrorist’, noun: 1. Someone my government tells me is a terrorist; 2. Someone my President decides to kill.”
Glenn Greenwald
“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.”
Clemens von Metternich
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.”
Thomas Sowell
“Men of principle are always bold, but those who are bold are not always men of principle.”
Confucius
“Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.”
H. L. Mencken
Guest Post by John Stossel
Joe Biden says he’ll “advance racial equity” by making “bold investments” in “Affordable Housing,” aiding “businesses owned by Black and Brown people,” establishing an “Equity Commission,” etc.
Gosh, that’ll do it.
Others demand reparations for slavery, more social programs and defunding the police.
Yet, economist Thomas Sowell says, “I haven’t been able to find a single country in the world where policies advocated for Blacks in the United States lifted any people out of poverty.”
“The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.”
Benjamin Franklin
“If the right to vote were expanded to seven year olds … its policies would most definitely reflect the ‘legitimate concerns’ of children to have ‘adequate’ and ‘equal’ access to ‘free’ french fries, lemonade and videos.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
“I am so old I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.”
Thomas Sowell
“Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.”
Benjamin Lichtenberg
“What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.”
Thomas Sowell
“Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
Ludwig von Mises
“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”
Aeschylus
“Driving jobholders out of office is like the old discredited policy of driving prostitutes out of town. Their places are immediately taken by others who are precisely like them.”
Albert J. Nock
“Legally speaking, there are no such things as ‘public rights,’ as distinguished from individual rights. Legally speaking, there is no such creature or thing as ‘the public.'”
Lysander Spooner
“It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”
James F. Cooper
“First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards.”
Mark Twain
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell
“The fact that so many politicians are shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.”
Thomas Sowell
“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”
Henry Steele Commager
“You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.”
Ambrose Bierce
“One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.”
Thomas Sowell
“A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others. Not respecting anyone, he ceases to love, and having no love, he gives himself up to passions and coarse pleasures.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“What shall I say about this generation? John the Baptist did not drink wine, and often went without food, and you called him mad. And I, the Messiah, both eat and drink, and you say that I am a glutton and a drunk, and am friends with the worst sort of sinners. The truth of you will be known by your works.”
Matt 11:16-19
Guest Post by Walter E. Williams
My longtime friend and colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of “Discrimination and Disparities.” It lays waste to myth after myth about the causes of human differences not only in the United States but around the globe. Throughout the book, Sowell shows that socioeconomic outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups and nations in ways that cannot be easily explained by any one factor, whether it’s genetics, sex or race discrimination or a history of gross mistreatment that includes expulsion and genocide.
“One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with ‘hate speech’ laws.”
Thomas Sowell
“It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say — which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.”
Thomas Sowell
“You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.”
Thomas Sowell
“We have now reached the point where virtually everything that serves black ‘leaders’—dependency, grievance-hunting, racial hype and paranoia—are major disservices to the cause of advancing blacks, at a time when their opportunities have never been better.”
Thomas Sowell
“One of the bittersweet things about growing old is realizing how mistaken you were when you were young. As a young political leftist, I saw the left as the voice of the common man. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
Thomas Sowell
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
Thomas Sowell
“Advocates of diversity in a race or gender sense are often quite hostile to ideological diversity, when it includes traditional or ‘conservative’ values and beliefs.”
Thomas Sowell
“If you want to see the poor remain poor, generation after generation, just keep the standards low in their schools and make excuses for their academic shortcomings and personal misbehavior. But please don’t congratulate yourself on your compassion.”
Thomas Sowell
“I wonder what radical feminists make of the fact that it was men who created the rule of ‘women and children first’ when it came to rescuing people from life-threatening emergencies.”
Thomas Sowell
“One of Obama’s great gifts is the ability to say things that are absolutely absurd and make them sound not only plausible, but inspiring.”
Thomas Sowell
“One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician.”
Thomas Sowell
http://www.theamericanmirror.com/hes-back-obama-refers-to-himself-102-times-during-64-minute-speech/
“You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.”
Thomas Sowell
“Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important.”
Thomas Sowell
“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
