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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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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The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department. – Thomas Sowell

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Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. – Detroit Journal

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

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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty. – Will Durant

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And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim. – Amos Oz

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If you are killed because you are a writer, thats the maximum expression of respect, you know. – Mario Vargas Llosa

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