CHARLES MURRAY

class interests in disguise.

Law that is sufficiently complex is indistinguishable from lawlessness.

People say that it’s easy to lie with statistics. Well it’s a lot easier to lie without them.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

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

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?

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.

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

I did not want my children to grow up only knowing other upper-middle-class kids like themselves.

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.

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.

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

I want to give people a basic income, so that if you're working hard, doing the best you can, that you can not just survive, but you can have a decent life.

I am increasingly ready to junk the public school system.

A part of me always felt like an outsider and still does.

I think there is this rage on campuses about Donald Trump and - as someone who has written pretty explicitly about my disapproval of Trump - I can sympathize with that.

The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.

I love Europe, but I don't want America to become like Europe.

My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.

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.

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.

Intelligence seems to blossom in the barest ground.

The way that social norms become social norms is not through any systematic process. It is through a flowering of an understanding within a culture.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.