One of the beauties of an economy coordinated by price movements is that nobody has to understand it in order for it to work.
What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.
How much more of an injustice is it that people who work get more money than people who don’t work?
The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who ‘care,’ has ruined many a nation.
Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.
The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing – whether or not they succeed – and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.
History is the memory of a nation.
We know – or should know – what lies at the end of the road of racial polarization. A ‘race card’ is not something to play, because race is a very dangerous political plaything.
As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.
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.
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
Reality is not optional.
Too many policies, programs and institutions are judged by what they are supposed to do, rather than by what they actually do and the consequences of their actions.
Social Engineering – The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don’t have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
If you don’t believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.