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More Quotes by Thomas Sowell
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.
Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks.
The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.
