Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

The government cannot enforce its mountain of laws and regulations without voluntary compliance.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

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.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Don't argue that you can't find a job that pays enough to support yourself. You can. You just can't find a job that will support you in the style to which you have been accustomed.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

I hate reading reviews.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

There is one group that is more consistently portrayed as ineffectual, as unvirtuous, as incompetent, as objects of fun, and that is white working class guys.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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
Charles Murray

Here's the secret you should remember whenever you hear someone lamenting how tough it is to get ahead in the postindustrial global economy: Few people work nearly as hard as they could.

Charles Murray
Charles Murray

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.