151 Quotes by Charles Murray

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families.

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.

There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.

The people who run the country have enormous influence over the culture, politics, and the economics of the country. And increasingly, they haven't a clue about how most of America lives. They have never experienced it.

In 1960, it was still - no nostalgia here - an age when you could leave your door unlocked even in urban neighborhoods.

To voice one's curmudgeonly thoughts - 'I hate tattoos,' 'If that kid says 'like' even one more time, I'm going to fire him,' and such things, instantly labels one as a geezer.

When 'The Bell Curve' came out, I'd have lectures with lots of people chanting and picketing with signs, but it was always within the confines of the event and I was eventually able to speak.