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If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 19, 2021

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It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with them. Using this kind of reasoning, you can believe or not believe anything about anything, without having to bother to deal with facts or logic.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 15, 2021

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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 13, 2021

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It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 9, 2021

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Many things that are supposed to help blacks actually have a track record of making things worse. Minimum wage laws have had a devastating effect in making black teenage unemployment several times higher than it once was.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 8, 2021

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The minimum wage law is very cleverly misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero—and that is what many inexperienced and low-skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) February 3, 2021

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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 (@ThomasSowell) January 27, 2021

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The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 22, 2021

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Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 22, 2021

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What "multiculturalism" boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture—and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 19, 2021

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Some people seem to think that the answer to all of life's imperfections is to create a government agency to correct them. If that is your approach, then go straight to totalitarianism. Do not pass "Go." Do not collect $200.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 19, 2021

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For too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it helps or hurts politically. Too many media people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they are combatants in political wars.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 13, 2021

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The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 12, 2021

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The political left's attempts to silence ideas they cannot, or will not, debate are a confession of intellectual bankruptcy.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 9, 2021

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One of the most dangerous trends of our times is making the truth socially unacceptable, or even illegal, with "hate speech" laws.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 14, 2021

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The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government — people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 12, 2021

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What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) January 4, 2021

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My favorite New Year's resolution was to stop trying to reason with unreasonable people. This has reduced both my correspondence and my blood pressure.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) December 30, 2020

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The welfare state is the greatest confidence racket of all time. The government takes your money in taxes and then turns around and spends some of it to give you things. For this, you feel dependent on them, when in fact they are dependent on you.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) December 23, 2020

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Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all — inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable.

— Thomas Sowell (@ThomasSowell) December 22, 2020