Quotes by Charles Murray - Page 2

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.
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Heredity
Established
Iq
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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 it in thirty-five years, you weren't going to make it in forty or forty-five.
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Forty
Thirty
Professionally
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White supremacist? Let's see: if you have a guy who was married for 13 years to an Asian woman and who has two lovely Asian daughters, wouldn't that disqualify him from membership in the white supremacist club?
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Lovely
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Hardly anybody realizes that the first couple of chapters of 'Coming Apart' were basically a recapitulation of the argument in 'The Bell Curve.' That's how little people focused on 'The Bell Curve's' real message.
Charles Murray /
Argument
Chapters
Bell
Curve
Hardly
Little People
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Have you ever held a job that caused a body part to hurt at the end of the day? Because my feeling is, if you can't answer yes to that question, you are in big trouble in trying to understand the country you live in.
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Caused
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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 /
Amazing
Class
Work Men Women
Interested
Communities
Desperately
Work Women Men
Number
Guys
Telling
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My family was pretty much the way a family was supposed to be, a Norman Rockwell kind of family, I'm afraid. I say 'I'm afraid' because it will just confirm my critics' view that my views about family are unrealistic.
Charles Murray /
Critics
Views
Confirm
Norman
Unrealistic
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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.
Charles Murray /
Clue
Enormous
Politics Culture People
Increasingly
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IQ is equivalent to chip speed, and superior chip speed will enable certain things that inferior chip speed will not enable. The same is true about just about any human attribute you can think of that has no relationship to IQ whatsoever.
Charles Murray /
Speed
Attribute
Certain Things
Chip
Enable
Equivalent
Inferior
Iq
Superior
Whatsoever
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As for tattoos, it does no good to remind curmudgeons that tattoos have been around for millennia. Yes, we will agree, tattoos have been common - first among savage tribes and then, more recently, among the lowest classes of Western societies.
Charles Murray /
Lowest
Tribes
Tattoos
Classes
Millennia
Societies
Remind
Savage
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The new upper class devotes incredible amounts of effort to raising their kids but that also includes incredible amounts of effort in getting their kids into the right preschool in some elite communities which I think is going a little bit too far.
Charles Murray /
Preschool
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Upper
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But in all cases when you have problems in your interactions with your boss, there's one more question you have to ask yourself: To what extent is your boss at fault, and to what extent are you a neophyte about supervisor-subordinate relationships?
Charles Murray /
Cases
Extent
Interactions
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Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I think you're shutting yourself off from a lot of American culture if you are so completely isolated from what goes on, on popular TV? Yeah, you are!
Charles Murray /
American Culture
Isolated
Terrific
Shutting
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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 /
Fallen
Ignorant
Isolated
Lower Class
Mainstream
Work New America
Behaviors
Increasingly
Lower
Upper
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I think we ought to strip our laws and regulations of everything that rewards or recommends or requires preferential treatment by race. I think that is one of the single most unfortunate changes of the 1960s and it is one that we can change at no cost.
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Rewards
Treatment
Unfortunate
Regulations
Strip
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It takes a lot of courage, self-confidence, and stubbornness to be an openly committed Christian - or openly committed to any of the great religious traditions - as an undergraduate in selective colleges or in the honors programs of large universities.
Charles Murray /
Selective
Stubbornness
Undergraduate
Colleges
Honors
Programs
Openly
Traditions
Universities
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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.
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Abortion
Fraud
Libertarian
Poll
Pro-Choice
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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 /
Disaster
Elites
Incentives
Low Income
Signals
Social Policy
Variety
Encouraged
Facing
Fundamentally
Reforms
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Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.
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Buying
Code
Emulate
Population
Morals
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People are starting to notice the great divide. The Tea party sees the aloofness in a political elite that thinks it knows best and orders the rest of America to fall in line. The Occupy movement sees it in an economic elite that lives in mansions and flies on private jets.
Charles Murray /
Mansions
Movement
Tea Party
Divide
Elite
Jets
Notice
Occupy
Orders
Private
Sees
Thinks
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The feminist revolution has tied writers into knots when it comes to the third-person singular pronoun. Using the masculine pronoun as the default has been proscribed. Some male writers get around this problem by defaulting to the feminine singular pronoun, which I think is icky.
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Default
Feminine
Masculine
Tied
Singular
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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 /
Chaos
Growing Up
Large Numbers
Moral
Numbers
Ordinary
Ordinary Things
Adult
Male
Boy
Empirical
Large
Little Girls
Statement
Young Men
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It's strange because we think of the upper middle class, for example, as being secular, that they've fallen away from religion. Well, it turns out that the upper middle class goes to church more often and feels a much stronger affiliation with their religion than the white working class.
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Affiliation
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Secular
For Example
Upper
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You know, there is an image of me out there for which advocacy of a universal basic income is inconsistent. It doesn't fit the narrative because this is supposed to be the hardhearted, racist, sexist, homophobe, Charles Murray. And he wants to increase spending on the poor? That doesn't fit.
Charles Murray /
Advocacy
Inconsistent
Narrative
Charles
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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.
Charles Murray /
Born
Development
Divorce
Frightened
Raised
Unmarried
Politicians
Families
Far
Intact
Measure
Problematic
Though
Worse
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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 /
Germany
Historical
Income
Minimum
Other Countries
Sweden
Switzerland
Any Other Country
Context
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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 /
Jobs
Blue Collar
Class
College Degree
Defining
High School
Managerial
Professions
Service
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I want the new upper class to start preaching what it practices. They are getting married and staying married in large numbers. They work like crazy, long hours. They even do better going to church than lots of the rest of America. Why not just say, these are not just choices we have made for ourselves. These are rich, rewarding ways of living.
Charles Murray /
Large Numbers
Long Hours
Numbers
Staying
Why Not
Practices
Rewarding
Upper
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