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“But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?”
― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts
“How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does not justify these crimes. Legality, alone, cannot be the talisman of moral people.”
― Walter E. Williams, All It Takes Is Guts
“Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.”
― Walter E. Williams
“Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.”
― Walter E. Williams
“No matter how worthy the cause, it is robbery, theft, and injustice to confiscate the property of one person and give it to another to whom it does not belong”
― Walter E. Williams
“The War between the States... produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today: consolidated and absolute, based on the unrestrained will of the majority, with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day. Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution. ... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that 'Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'.”
― Walter E. Williams
“Discrimination is simply the act of choice. Scarcity requires us to choose; scarcity is the cause of discrimination!”
― Walter E. Williams
“The recognition of the fact that Congress has no resources of its own forces us to acknowledge that the only way Congress can give one American one dollar is to first, through intimidation, threats, and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. If a private citizen did the same thing that Congress does, we would call it an immoral act—namely theft. Acts such as theft that are immoral when done privately do not become moral when done collectively. The moral tragedy that has befallen Americans is our belief that it is okay for government to forcibly use one American to serve the purposes of another”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“French economist/philosopher Frederic Bastiat (1801–50) gave a test for immoral government acts: “See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you.”
― Walter E. Williams
“Believing that presidents have taxing and spending powers leaves Congress less politically accountable for our deepening economic quagmire. Of course, if you’re a congressman, not being held accountable is what you want.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“Social Security is unsustainable because it is not meeting the first order condition of a Ponzi scheme, namely expanding the pool of suckers.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“Some say it's wrong to profit from the misfortune of others. I ask my students whether they'd support a law against doing so. But I caution them with some examples. An orthopedist profits from your misfortune of having broken your leg skiing. When there's news of a pending ice storm, I doubt whether it saddens the hearts of those in the collision repair business. I also tell my students that I profit from their misfortune—their ignorance of economic theory.”
― Walter E. Williams
“The Rev. Jesse Jackson once said, “There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery—then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. (Quoting Adam Smith)”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“Do-gooders fail to realize that most good is not done in the name of good but done in the name of self-interest.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“Employer substitution of higher-skilled for lower-skilled workers is not the only effect of the minimum wage law. It also gives employers an economic incentive to make other changes: substitute machines for labor; change production techniques; relocate overseas; and eliminate certain jobs altogether. The substitution of automatic dishwashers for hand washing, and automatic tomato-picking machines for manual pickers, are examples of the substitution of machines for labor in response to higher wages.”
― Walter E. Williams, Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
“Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that “no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he’s free.” That’s becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we’ve lost.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“What our nation needs is a separation of “business and state” as it has a separation of “church and state.” That would mean crony capitalism and crony socialism could not survive.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“It’s government people, not rich people, who have the power to coerce and make our lives miserable. Coercive power goes a long way toward explaining political corruption.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“The law-abiding black citizen who is passed up by a taxi, refused pizza delivery, or stopped by the police can rightfully feel a sense of injustice and resentment. But the bulk of those feelings should be directed at those who have made race synonymous with higher rates of criminal activity rather than the taxi driver or pizza deliverer who is trying to earn a living and avoid being a crime victim.”
― Walter E. Williams, Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
“The real problem is that workers are not so much underpaid as they are under-skilled. And the real task is to help those people become skilled. Congress cannot do this simply by declaring that as of such-and-such a date, everybody’s productive output is now worth $7.25 per hour. This makes about as much sense, and does just about as much harm, as doctors “curing” patients simply by declaring that they are cured.”
― Walter E. Williams, Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
“Our founders, in the words of Thomas Paine, recognized that, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“One annoyance is people’s seeming inability or unwillingness to differentiate between the number zero and the letter “o.” I’ve had conversations with telephone operators who have told me that I can reach my party by dialing, for example, 31o-3o55. Sometimes I’ve asked, “If I follow your instructions, by dialing the letter ‘o’ instead of the number zero, will I reach my party?” They always answer no and that I must dial the zero. Then I ask, “Why did you tell me ‘o’ when you meant zero?” Our chitchat usually degrades after that. It’s not only telephone operators. How many times have you heard a student or teacher say, “He has a 4 point o GPA”? I”
― Walter E. Williams, American Contempt for Liberty
“One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no matter what the cost.”
― Walter E. Williams, Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination?
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1 minute ago, BUFORDGAWOLVES said:

Took you until almost 4 am to compose that sentence though. 
 

Working feverishly through the night until the wee hours. 
 

bgw

 

Or just seconds after I saw Dumbass's post.

Why did it take you 2 or 3 days to compose your little retort?

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BUFORDGAWOLVES Grand Master

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1 minute ago, concha said:

 

Or just seconds after I saw Dumbass's post.

Why did it take you 2 or 3 days to compose your little retort?

🤡

 

Just saw it, going back through the quotes in your initial post.

At least you brought something worthwhile to the OT. 

It’s a long haul unfucking the fuckery you spewed though, through the election. 
 

bgw

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33 minutes ago, BUFORDGAWOLVES said:

Just saw it, going back through the quotes in your initial post.

At least you brought something worthwhile to the OT. 

It’s a long haul unfucking the fuckery you spewed though, through the election. 
 

bgw

 

They're things called "facts".

I realize you aren't bright enough to process them.

You actually claim to care about African-Americans and then vote for Biden.  🤣

 

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People like Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell should be admired and taught in schools. People like them should be role models, not Jay-Z and Lebron James. 

Less Cardi B, more Candace Owens. 

Great minds that black youth can look up to.  Hell anyone can.  I love reading and listening to all three 

RIP, WW. Your impact will never be forgotten 

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