Tom Woods on racial and ethnic differences

It's not just that we're dealing with toxic and irrational ideas. These are ideas that obviously lend themselves to government intervention. We need government intervention to reverse all these outcomes that we're told are unnatural and would not occur spontaneously. 

But the presumption that we would have equal outcomes for all groups is based in an extremely... juvenile, let's say, an approach to society that is so simplistic as to be juvenile. Because the different racial and ethnic groups in the United States differ in all sorts of ways. All sorts of ways that are completely benign. They differ in average age, for example. They differ in their geographical distribution across the country. They differ in their educational levels and they differ in their culture and their cultural values. And they differ in these ways that are so extraordinary that it would be astonishing if there were equal outcomes among groups, even assuming absolutely pure motives on the part of everybody involved. 

~ Tom Woods, "Political Correctness and Argument from Intimidation," Mises Institute speech, 7:00 mark, October 8, 2015

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on human differences, equality and freedom

Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Christopher Mayer on seeing differences and similarities

When you see only differences or similarities, you get into trouble...

Professor [Irving J.] Lee taught: It is the mark of a mature mind to see both.  Aim to see similarities among things that are different and see differences where the unsophisticated see similarities.

~ Christopher Mayer, How Do You Know? (2018)