American - Economist | June 30, 1930 -
The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
Thomas Sowell
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The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
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There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
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Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.
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People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
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Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
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Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
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Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
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All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
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