"Anyone who does not understand the utter..." - Quote by Thomas Sowell

“In short, killing the goose that lays the golden egg is a viable political strategy, so long as the goose does not die before the next election and no one traces the politicians’ fingerprints on the murder weapon.”

“However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.”

“One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.”

“Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.”

“The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.”

“Aristocracy is that form of government in which education and discipline are qualifications for suffrage and office holding.”

“Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.”

“I don't suppose there's a man going, as possesses the fondness for youth that I do. There's youth to the amount of eight hundredpound a-year, at Dotheboys Hall at this present time. I'd take sixteen hundred pound worth, if I could get 'em, and be as fond of every individual twenty pound among 'em as nothing should equal it!”

“But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice.”