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 government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance. — Charles Murray 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 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
I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my… — Charles Murray 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 did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves. — Charles Murray Children 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
As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos… — Charles Murray 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
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
If you don't start your career until thirty, that still gives you thirty-five years to make it professionally. If you can't make… — Charles Murray Career 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
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
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
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
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
My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in… — Charles Murray 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 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
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
Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he… — Charles Murray 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
It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married… — Charles Murray 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 want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can… — Charles Murray 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 are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that… — Charles Murray 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 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 Copy Share Image
I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard. — Charles Murray Doctor 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
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
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 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 '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I… — Charles Murray Disaster Copy Share Image
More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make… — Charles Murray 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
