The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well. — Charles Murray Government 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
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
Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me. — Charles Murray Agnostic 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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves. — Charles Murray Children Copy Share Image
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government. — Charles Murray Government Copy Share Image
Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up. — Charles Murray Experience 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
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
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 Always 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
“it is said that roosters think the sun rises because they crow. Politicians are much the same.” — Charles Murray Politics 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
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 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
“No one should be allowed to work in the West Wing of the White House who has not suffered a major disappointment… — Charles Murray Life Copy Share Image
