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#1

“Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.”
― John Lamb Lash, Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief

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#2

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#3

“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: apotheosis, hubris

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#4

“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: truth

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#5

“The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#6

“Rhetoric is no substitute for reality.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#7

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
― Thomas Sowell, Knowledge and Decisions

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#8

“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 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#9

“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#10

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: economics, politics

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#11

“The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: freedom, government, libertarian, liberty, socialism, state, statism, tyranny, voluntaryism

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#12

“Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: help, helping, liberal, liberalism, life, people, political, politics, solutions

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#13

“To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

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#14

“People are all born ignorant but they are not born stupid. Much of the stupidity we see today is induced by our educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities. In a high-tech age that has seen the creation of artificial intelligence by computers, we are also seeing the creation of artificial stupidity by people who call themselves educators.”
― Thomas Sowell, Dismantling America: and other controversial essays

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#15

“No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

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#16

“A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice

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#17

“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#18

“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
― Thomas Sowell, The Thomas Sowell Reader

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#19

“It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.”
― Thomas Sowell

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#20

“No-one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days.”
― Thomas Sowell

tags: equality, social-justice, social-justice-warrior

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#21

“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.

Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: evil, good, heart, religion

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#22

“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

tags: cruelty, power

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#23

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

tags: anarchy, coercion, collectivism, control, equality, free-market, freedom, individual-freedom, individualism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, natural-law, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, slavery, socialism, statism, taxation, universal-ethics, voluntaryism

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#24

“Whenever someone starts talking about 'fair competition' or indeed, about 'fairness' in general, it is time to keep a sharp eye on your wallet, for it is about to be picked.”
― Murray N. Rothbard

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, fair, free-markets, freedom, gang, government, interventionism, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, protectionism, rulers, statism, taxation, theft, thieves, trade, voluntaryism

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#25

“When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we in essence accept that the state owns our bodies.”
― Ron Paul

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, coercion, collectivism, communism, freedom, libertarian, liberty, medicine, national-health-service, nhs, non-aggression-principle, self-ownership, socialised-medicine, socialism, socialized, statism, totalitarian, voluntaryism, voluntaryist

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#26

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism

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#27

“A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.”
― Ludwig von Mises

tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, capitalism, coercion, collectivism, communism, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, individual-rights, individualism, laissez-faire, law, libertarian, liberty, markets, non-aggression-principle, peace, politics, property, property-rights, rights, socialism, society, statism, trade, violence, voluntaryism, war

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#28

“Socialism, or communism as it is sometimes called, is merely a secular religion, where the State becomes a god.”
― Stefan Molyneux

tags: anarchy, ancap, capitalism, collectivism, free, free-markets, government, individualism, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, non-aggression-principle, statism, superstition, trade, voluntaryism

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