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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

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Culture

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" Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok? "

" Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data. "

" The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. "

" One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. "

" The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. "

" A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas. "

" Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. "

" Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. "

" Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good. "

" The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. "

" 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. "

" Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. "

" Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America. "

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America

Need

" Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency. "

" The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' "

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Racism

You

" Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets. "

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Ingenuity

Budget

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

" Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today's problems are a result of yesterday's solutions. "

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Result

Today

" Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. "

" The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive. "

" People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. "

" It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.' "

" Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved. "

" It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all. "

" The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending. "

" The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. "

" Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination. "

" One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. "

" It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. "