Quote by Thomas Sowell
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safet

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns. – Thomas Sowell

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If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly. – Thomas Sowell

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Business
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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. – Thomas Sowell

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work
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Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats. – Thomas Sowell

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power
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself. – Jane Addams

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From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need. – Karl Marx

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Sir Winston Churchill

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Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. – Detroit Journal

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. – Henry Miller

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And finally, no matter how good the science gets, there are problems that inevitably depend on judgement, on art, on a feel for financial markets. – Martin Feldstein

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The TUCs new slogan a future that works sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. – Frances OGrady

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One mustnt ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. – Gustave Flaubert

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