Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.
All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms.
All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Government’s power to bully people who have broken no law is dangerous to all of us.
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.
All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.
Lunches don’t get free just because you don’t see the prices on the menu. And economists don’t get popular by reminding people of that.
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.
American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected.
Most people who read “The Communist Manifesto” probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of “the workers”. Thomas Sowell .
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting “self-esteem” and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
Some full professors could more accurately be described as empty professors.
The left takes its vision seriously – more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.