People who think that they are being "exploited" should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: "Good … - Thomas Sowell

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain. (27 December 2002)

Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.

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.