I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves. — Charles Murray Children Copy Share Image
You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager. — Charles Murray Bad Copy Share Image
I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters. — Charles Murray Academic Copy Share Image
By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian. — Charles Murray End Copy Share Image
I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty. — Charles Murray Always Copy Share Image
Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me. — Charles Murray Agnostic Copy Share Image
To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of… — Charles Murray Character Copy Share Image
There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is… — Charles Murray Class Copy Share Image
A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they… — Charles Murray Civic Copy Share Image
I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to… — Charles Murray Culture Copy Share Image
I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my… — Charles Murray Donald trump 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 Uniquely American 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
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
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
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
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
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
My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I'm afraid. I… — Charles Murray Family Copy Share Image
You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't… — Charles Murray He Copy Share Image
I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers.… — Charles Murray Choices Copy Share Image
Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
“The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It… — Charles Murray Human suffering Copy Share Image
“The genius of free human beings is that, given responsibility, they join together to take care of each other—to be their brothers’… — Charles Murray Freedom Copy Share Image
The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance. — Charles Murray Cannot Copy Share Image
I love Europe, but I don't want America to become like Europe. — Charles Murray America 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
My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned. — Charles Murray Answer Copy Share Image
The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well. — Charles Murray Government Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything. — Charles Murray Control Copy Share Image
Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity. — Charles Murray Ethnicity Copy Share Image
Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up. — Charles Murray Experience Copy Share Image
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government. — Charles Murray Government 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
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions. — Charles Murray Great Copy Share Image
