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The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

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When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown. ↗

— Robert Southwell

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Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#capitalism #color #considered #else #ethnicity

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.' ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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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

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I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

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