Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell .

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves.

The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.

What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others.

All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done.