Quote by Thomas Sowell
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. – Thomas Sowell

Other quotes by Thomas Sowell

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. – Thomas Sowell

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good
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Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. – Thomas Sowell

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best
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Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government. – Thomas Sowell

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Government
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Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle

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You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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Politics

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows. – Edward Koch

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Politics

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. – Mike Huckabee

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Politics

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Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography. – Lance Loud

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All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene. – Meryl Streep

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There are moments of beauty so intense that they will touch you for life. – Dr.SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com

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Beauty

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James