Thomas Sowell Quotes About Desire
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
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Prices impose the most effective kind of rationing - self-rationing. Why is rationing necessary? Because what everybody wants always adds up to more than there is. . .Resources are limited but desires are not. That is the basic and defining problem of economics.
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The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity.
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However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free.
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The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.
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The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.
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