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What is an individualist? Is it someone who champions individual responsibility, individual duty, even individuality itself? By no means. Individuality is one thing, individualism another. An individualist is someone who turns the ...more
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Theodore Dalrymple
“Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.”
Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

Thomas Sowell
“The phrase “white privilege” is not the only verbal sleight of hand used to make achievement differences vanish. Even racial or ethnic groups that arrived in the United States destitute during the nineteenth century, and were forced to live in a desperate poverty and squalor almost inconceivable today, have had their later rise from such dire conditions verbally erased by calling their eventual achievement of prosperity a “privilege.”19 The histories of Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Japanese immigrants in America are classic examples of this process—and of their achievements being verbally air-brushed out of history by simply calling them “privilege.” Even middle-class blacks today have likewise been characterized by some as “privileged,”20 even though their ancestors arrived as slaves.”
Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities

Thomas Sowell
“What words openly declare can be tested against empirical evidence, but what words insinuate can bypass that safeguard. Even an innocent-sounding phrase like “income distribution,” endlessly repeated, can suggest a process in which income exists somehow and is then distributed, as one might distribute food at a dinner table or gifts at Christmas.”
Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities

Thomas Sowell
“Adam Smith declared “the good temper and moderation of contending factions” to be “the most essential circumstance in the public morals of a free people.”51 But what good temper or moderation can be expected when a major segment of the population becomes convinced that “the system is rigged” against them and morality is just a giant fraud?”
Thomas Sowell, Discrimination and Disparities

Hourly History
“Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.” —George S. Patton”
Hourly History, George Patton: A Life From Beginning to End

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