Sunday, October 11, 2009

Some Quotable Quotes..

...from Thomas Sowell. h/t Indigo Red

"When politicians propose some hugely expensive new program and are asked how the government is going to pay for it, a standard ploy over the years has been to claim that they will pay for it by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse." At a recent town hall meeting, a citizen raised the obvious question: If you can do that, why haven't you done it already?"
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"The older I get, the more I learn to tolerate human shortcomings — and the less I tolerate bad attitudes."
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"The way Hollywood elites have sprung to defend Roman Polanski to keep him from being extradited to the United States, despite the heinous crime he is accused of, suggests that — like other egalitarians — they consider those who are "one of us" to be more equal than others."
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"What is most frightening about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. All problems seem to them to be due to others not being as wise or noble as they are."
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"Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong."

1 Comments:

Blogger Indigo Red said...

Ollie Holmes is long dead, but his defining of 'the market' and 'social justice' hasn't changed one jot over time. More folks need to understand the difference.

October 11, 2009 4:39 pm  

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