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  1. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    More to the point, if he did cancel the tour in order to fight that tax, would we regard him as a rational man of high principle or as a doctrinaire, a moral exhibitionist, or an egomaniac
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  2. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    Geography is not egalitarian.
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  3. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called "social justice" might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society.
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  4. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    That some leader dangerous to the basic institutions of American society would arise, Lincoln thought inevitable. Safeguarding these institutions would require a public sufficiently united, sufficiently attached to freedom, and sufficiently wise, "to successfully frustrate his designs." Today it would also require a public sufficiently resistant to incessant criticisms and condemnations of their society for failing to achieve cosmic justice. Moreover, if the dangers in our own times were limited to those of "towering genius," there would be much less danger than there is. However, all that is needed are towering presumptions, which are increasingly mass-produced in our schools and colleges by the educational vogue of encouraging immature and inexperienced students to sit in emotional judgment on the complex evolution of whole ages and vast civilizations.
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  5. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    Justice at all costs' is not justice.
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  6. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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  7. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    A society that puts equality-in the sense of equality of outcome-ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.9
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