Skip to content

Books Quote by J.D. Vance

Download Open image

““The same was true of Charles Murray’s seminal Losing Ground, another book about black folks that could have been written about hillbillies—which addressed the way our government encouraged social decay through the welfare state.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Books Politics Welfare state

More by J.D. Vance

“Wed don't need to live like the elites of California, New York, or Washington, D.C. We don't need to work a hundred hours a…

Image

“Within two generations, the transplanted hillbillies had largely caught up to the native population in terms of income and poverty level.”

Image

“Powerful people sometimes do things to help people like me without really understanding people like me.”

Image

“Research does reveal a genetic disposition to substance abuse, but those who believe their addiction is a disease show less of an inclination to…

Image

“But I often wonder: Where would I be without them? I think”

Image

“the first impulse is escape, but people who lurch toward the exit rarely choose the right door.”

Image

“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists…

Image

“A young man was sitting at home when a terrible rainstorm began. Within hours, the man’s house began to flood, and someone came to…

Image

“As a culture, we had no heroes. Certainly not any politician--Barack Obama was then the most admired man in America (and likely still is),…

Image

“To this day, being able to “take advantage” of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay,…

Image

“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural…

Image

“As a 2011 Brookings Institution study found, “compared to 2000, residents of extreme-poverty neighborhoods in 2005–09 were more likely to be white, native-born, high…

Image

Explore all 127 J.D. Vance quotes

More Books quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Image

My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that…

Karen Thompson Walker

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

Christopher K. Krebs

Image

“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

Louisa May Alcott

Image

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

Browse all 59,475 Books quotes