“The most harm of all is done when power is in the hands of people who are absolutely persuaded of the purity of their instincts-- and the purity of their intentions”
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“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
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“Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.”
― The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
― The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy
“No matter how much people on the left talk about compassion, they have no compassion for the taxpayers.”
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
― The Thomas Sowell Reader
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