Charles A. Murray Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.”
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“The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.”
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“It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.”
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“The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.”
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“We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.”
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“What a racially segregated system once taught the young black about living with his inferiority is now taught by a benevolent social welfare system. The difference was that in an earlier age a black parent could fight the competing influences.”
-- Charles A. Murray
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