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I am so old that I can remember when liberals were liberal, and when common decency was actually common.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) May 12, 2022

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Letter from a reader: “The Socialists want to take the ‘sting’ out of poverty. They don’t understand that it’s the ‘sting’ that got everyone I know out of poverty and not a minimum wage.”

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) May 12, 2022

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Politicians have learned to call their spending of the taxpayers’ money “investment,” even when it is just pouring money down a bottomless pit, in order to win votes from the recipients.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) May 12, 2022

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Politics has turned the lofty ideal of equality into the ugly reality of resentments of other people’s achievements — and a feeling that the world owes you something, while you owe nobody anything, not even common decency.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) May 12, 2022

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You can see the agenda behind the rhetoric when profits are called "unconscionable" but taxes never are, even when taxes take more than half of what someone has earned, or add much more to the prices we have to pay than profits do.

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) April 30, 2022

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Poverty is obscene. It is poverty that needs to be reduced —and increasing a country's productivity has done that far more widely than redistributing income by targeting "the rich."

— Thomas Sowell (@TheThomasSowell) April 30, 2022

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I cannot understand people who say that minorities should be represented everywhere and yet are upset when there are blacks represented in the conservative movement.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 7, 2022

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One of the most pathetic—and dangerous—signs of our times is the growing number of individuals and groups who believe that no one can possibly disagree with them for any honest reason.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 6, 2022

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Crises have long been seen as great opportunities to expand the federal government’s power while the people are too scared to object and before any opposition can get organized.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 5, 2022

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It is easy to give up freedom and hard to get it back.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 2, 2022

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Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, "social justice."

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) May 1, 2022

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If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 29, 2022

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Government giveaways polarize society into segments, each trying to get what it wants at somebody else’s expense, creating bitterness that can tear a society apart.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 27, 2022

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The current hysteria over "fake news"—including hysteria by people who have done more than their own fair share of faking news—shows the continuing efforts of the political left to stifle free speech in the country at large, as they already have on academic campuses.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 27, 2022

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There was a time when we honored those who created the prosperity and the freedom that we enjoy. Today we honor the complainers and sue the creators. Perhaps that is inevitable in an era when we no longer count our blessings, but instead count all our unfulfilled wishes.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 26, 2022

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The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 25, 2022

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Life does not ask us what we want. It presents us with options. Economics is one of the ways of trying to make the most of those options.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 23, 2022

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If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 22, 2022

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We are all superior to each other—and are all inferior to each other. It all depends on when and what. The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 22, 2022

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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 those who disagree with them — instead of answering their arguments.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) April 20, 2022