I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have
earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.
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.
It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
Racism does not have a good track record. It's been tried out for a long time and you'd think by now we'd want to put an end to it instead of putting it under new management.