The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system.… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and beliefs. Most… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
