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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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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The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. – Thomas Sowell

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Science
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Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. – Thomas Sowell

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

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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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