Quotation of the Day…

(Don Boudreaux)

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… is from page 30 of Thomas Sowell’s October 4th, 1985, column “Envy and ‘Social Justice’,” as this column is reprinted in Compassion Versus Guilt, a 1987 collection of some of Sowell’s essays:

Envy used to be one of the seven deadly sins. But now it is the prime political virtue, under its new name – “social justice.”