The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Although some observers believe that feminism and sexual liberalism no longer threaten family values, little in fact has changed. Contemporary sexual liberals… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Liberals force lower middle-class families, who love their children, to dispatch them to ghetto schools dominated by gangs of fatherless boys bearing… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“It removes information from the market when I need more and more...Indexing is a waste heap--information so merged and muffled that it hides knowledge… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“An economics of systems only-an economics of markets but not of men-is fatally flawed.” — George Gilder Copy Share Image
If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Socialism is an insurance policy bought by all the members of a national economy to shield them from risk. But the result is to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies,… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability - old companies that… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance...comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
In order to understand the movement of prices, you need not an oscilloscope to measure the entire market and reduce it to noise, but… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The most important feature of an information economy, in which information is defined as surprise, is the overthrow, not the attainment, of equilibrium. The… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“An economy is a "noosphere" (a mind-based system), and it can revive as quickly as minds and policies can change.” — George Gilder Copy Share Image
“Obviously the most enduring way to make this commitment is through marriage. Yet because sexual liberals deny the differences between the sexes, their explanations… — George Gilder Copy Share Image