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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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. – Thomas Sowell

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Failure
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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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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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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. – Norman Mailer

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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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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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In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. – James Buchan

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Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation. – Swami Sivananda

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good

As for goals, I dont set myself those anymore. Im not one of these I must have achieved this and that by next year kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end. – Paul Kane

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Patience

All societies on the verge of death are masculine. A society can survive with only one man no society will survive a shortage of women. – Germaine Greer

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