Quotes by Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010

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Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they a — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
The main vehicle for nineteenth-century socialization was the leading textbook used in elementary school. They were so w — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
People need self-respect, that self respect must be earned – it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned – and the only — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
The percentage of people qualifying for federal disability benefits because they are unable to work rose from 0.7 percen — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who u — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
They don't know the distinction between taking care of a child and raising a child. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
It used to be that parents didn't have to be home. If a neighbor so I child misbehaving, it was considered appropriate f — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Data can bear on policy issues, but many of our opinions about policy are grounded in premises about the nature of human — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
the most lovable of exceptional American qualities (is) our tradition of insisting that we are part of the middle class, — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Considerable social science research has found that constant praise of children can backfire, because it so often consis — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards. — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned -- it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned -- and the onl — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010
paying taxes is a cheap price for a quiet conscience—much cheaper than actually having to get involved in the lives of t — Charles Murray, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010