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I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to marriage, attraction to religion, and which tended to increase attraction to crime.Collection: Charles
More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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?Collection: Charles
No woman has been a significant original thinker in any of the world's great philosophical traditions.Collection: Charles
Trumpism' is the expression by the white working class of a lot of legitimate grievances that it has with the ruling class.Collection: Charles
I have always believed in enforcing the border, and doing that before you do amnesty.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
I hate reading reviews.Collection: Charles
Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.Collection: Charles
The government is a terrible employer, and that goes for national service jobs as well.Collection: Charles
You can learn a lot about good management by working under someone who is a bad manager.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
To talk about the superiority of an ethnic group on the basis of some points of difference on IQ tests is idiotic.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
Cultural inequality is not grounded in race or ethnicity.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
There's a big difference in outcomes between children who grow up without a father and children who grow up with a married set of parents.Collection: Charles
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.Collection: Charles
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.Collection: Charles
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.Collection: Charles
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.Collection: Charles
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.Collection: Charles
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.Collection: Charles
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.Collection: Charles
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.Collection: Charles
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?Collection: Charles
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.Collection: Charles
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.Collection: Charles
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.Collection: Charles
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.Collection: Charles
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.Collection: Charles
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.Collection: Charles
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.Collection: Charles
Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.Collection: Charles
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.Collection: Charles
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.Collection: Charles
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.Collection: Charles
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.Collection: Charles
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.Collection: Charles
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.Collection: Charles
Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.Collection: Charles
It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.Collection: Charles