There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I would like to have seen millions of votes left blank for president to send a message there are millions of voters… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I want to keep the government out of the business of giving incentives to have or not have kids, or incentives to… — Charles Murray Business Copy Share Image
The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding… — Charles Murray Culture Copy Share Image
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
People are voluntarily giving money to A.E.I. - there is no government money - because they think the work we do is… — Charles Murray Giving Copy Share Image
“it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.” — Charles Murray Politics Copy Share Image
The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development… — Charles Murray Children Copy Share Image
If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make… — Charles Murray Career Copy Share Image
The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has… — Charles Murray Asian Copy Share Image
When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately… — Charles Murray Amazing Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing… — Charles Murray Chaos Copy Share Image
“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and… — Charles Murray Civil rights Copy Share Image
“For a discussion of the Founders’ view that a successful republic required a high level of virtue in the people, see Charles… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The religiosity of Americans I don't think has ever been determined by how much money they make. — Charles Murray Americans Copy Share Image
Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class. — Charles Murray Class Copy Share Image
We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I still want to find a way that leaves people free to live their lives without telling them what to do. — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard. — Charles Murray Doctor Copy Share Image
America's always been very good at providing help to people in need. It hasn't been perfect, but they've been very good at… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
If we want to jack up the tax rates on the really rich, the amounts of money that would bring in are… — Charles Murray Class Copy Share Image
To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire… — Charles Murray Fire Copy Share Image
I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“A free society is most threatened not by uses of government that are obviously bad, but by uses of government that seem… — Charles Murray Free society Copy Share Image
In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods. — Charles Murray Age Copy Share Image
We decided in the mid-1960s that all poor people are the same: they are all poor. We know they're poor because we… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
It's much more fun to talk to an audience that includes a lot of people who disagree with me. — Charles Murray Audience Copy Share Image
Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the… — Charles Murray Feminine Copy Share Image
“Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
“I propose another explanation: The reason so many Americans have become alienated from government since the poll of 1964 is that government… — Charles Murray American government Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of… — Charles Murray Christianity Copy Share Image
