Lib Quotes
  • Authors
  • Topics
  • Lists
  • Pictures
  • Resources
  • More about Charles Murray

Charles Murray Quotes

6 Sourced Quotes

    • Source
    • Report...
The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

Charles Murray
    • Source
    • Report...
Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

Charles Murray
    • Source
    • Report...
People need self-respect, but self-respect must be earned — it cannot be self-respect if it's not earned — and the only way to earn anything is to achieve it in the face of the possibility of failing.

Charles Murray
    • Source
    • Report...
Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.

Charles Murray
    • Source
    • Report...
We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

Charles Murray
    • Source
    • Report...
When life becomes an extended picnic, with nothing of importance to do, ideas of greatness become an irritant. Such is the nature of the Europe syndrome.

Charles Murray

Quote of the day

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Charles Murray

Charles Murray
Creative Commons

Born: January 8, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Charles Alan Murray is an American libertarian political scientist, author, columnist, and pundit.
Known for:
  1. The Bell Curve (1994)
  2. Losing Ground (1984)

WikipediaCharles Murray on Wikipedia

Suggest an edit or a new quoteSuggest an edit or a new quote

Charles Murray Quotes
Quotes about Charles Murray

American Political scientist Quotes
Political scientist Quotes
20th-century Political scientist Quotes

Related Authors

Steve Sailer
Steve Sailer
American Journalist

William Julius Wilson
William Julius Wilson
American Sociologist

Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell
American Philosopher

Featured Authors

Elizabeth I of EnglandAndré GideJean-Paul SartreDonald TrumpJane AustenMartin Luther King, Jr.Martin ScorseseLewis CarrollSteve JobsUmberto EcoCharles DarwinVirgil

Lists

Predictions that didn't happen

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Picture Quotes

If you see what is right and fail to act on it, you lack courage.

Confucius

I have a heart with room for every joy.

Philip James Bailey

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Popular Topics

  • life
  • love
  • nature
  • time
  • god
  • power
  • human
  • mind
  • work
  • art
  • heart
  • thought
  • men
  • day
Lib Quotes

100% Sourced Quotes.

Our motto is: Don't quote it if you can't source it.

Contact us

Social Media

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • X (Twitter)
  • Pinterest

Recent

Predictions that didn't happen

If it's on the Internet it must be true

Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)

Subscribe to our Newsletter:
Quote of the Day
JS and WordPress
Subscribe
to RSS Feeds
© 2017-2025 LibQuotes
Terms of Use / Privacy Policy / About Us

Lib Quotes