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
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 Great 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 Donald trump 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 relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a… — Charles Murray Group 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
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
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
We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors… — Charles Murray America 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
“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
I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race.… — Charles Murray 1960s Copy Share Image
When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling… — Charles Murray Body Copy Share Image
People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows… — Charles Murray America Copy Share Image
The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in… — Charles Murray Effort 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
I still want to find a way that leaves people free to live their lives without telling them what to do. — Charles Murray Find Copy Share Image
Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global… — Charles Murray Ahead 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 Best 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 Enough 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
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 Line 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
IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The… — Charles Murray Human 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 American 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
“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
Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell… — Charles Murray Argument Copy Share Image
“Joan played den mother to the rebirth of American individualism. That she filled that role for so many is why I am… — Charles Murray Parenting Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that… — Charles Murray Abortion Copy Share Image
When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar… — Charles Murray High school Copy Share Image
IQ is a very important predictor, not just of academic success, but of economic success. — Charles Murray Academic success Copy Share Image
My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in… — Charles Murray Background Copy Share Image
To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic. — Charles Murray Difference 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
