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The '60s were a disaster in terms of social policy. The elites put in place a whole set of reforms which I think fundamentally changed the signals and the incentives facing low-income people and encouraged a variety of trends that soon became self-reinforcing.
- Charles Murray
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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 job or a low-skilled service job. When I'm talking about the white, upper-middle class, I'm talking about people who work in the professions or managerial jobs and have at least a college degree.
- Charles Murray
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We are under a moral obligation to do our best to realize the best that human beings can be. To neglect that obligation is to waste our lives.
- Charles Murray
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Ecumenical niceness is just pabulum.
- Charles Murray
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Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.
- Charles Murray
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When you talk to people in working class communities about men, the women aren't telling you that their guys are looking desperately for work but can't find it. An amazing number of them aren't interested in working.
- Charles Murray
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By the end of writing 'Losing Ground,' I realized I was a libertarian.
- Charles Murray
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We have a new lower class that's large and growing that has fallen away from a lot of the basic core behaviors and institutions that made America work, and we have a new upper class that's increasingly isolated from and ignorant of mainstream America.
- Charles Murray
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Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.
- Charles Murray
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The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.
- Charles Murray
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I don't think there is a libertarian position on abortion. Maybe if you took a poll of libertarians, it might be that a majority would be pro-choice, but, the libertarian position is to protect the rights of individuals against the use of force and fraud.
- Charles Murray
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#Fraud
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#Rights
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.
- Charles Murray
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#Need
#Thing
Intelligence seems to blossom in the barest ground.
- Charles Murray
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When America installs a minimum income, it's going to be doing it in a very different historical context than Switzerland or Sweden or Germany, or any other country might do it. And we're doing it in a context where it has the potential, I think, for much better consequences than in those other countries.
- Charles Murray
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#Historical
There's a big difference between being good and being nice. Being good involves tough choices - tough love.
- Charles Murray
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#Love
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The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.
- Charles Murray
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#Laws
I can get a good doctor in a minute and a half. Getting a really good electrician - that's hard.
- Charles Murray
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#I Can
For most of our nation's history, whatever the inequality in wealth between the richest and poorest citizens, we maintained a cultural equality known nowhere else in the world - for whites, anyway.
- Charles Murray
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#Nation
#Wealth
#World
I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.
- Charles Murray
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#Culture
#Marriage
#Religion
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