"So many idealistic political movements for a..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell
So many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.
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“A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.”
“What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.”
“American society in recent years has been imitating behavior patterns that have produced negative - and sometimes catastrophic - consequences in many other countries around the world.”
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“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state”
“He produced mainly three results: Hatred, Terror, Adoration.”
“Authority is never without hate.”
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“As children growing up here in the East Bay, we were raised by a community with a deep belief in the promise of our country - and, a deep understanding of the parts of that promise that still remain unfulfilled.”
“America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!”
“While over Alabama earth These words are gently spoken: Serve and hate will die unborn. Love and chains are broken.”