#con

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#brainy #conservatives #his #how #impressed

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#domination #form #lie #power #selective

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#action #any #believed #cause #confidence

Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#antithesis #between #contest #define #ever

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#being #brutally #constantly #down #forward