“The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.” StatesUsedEnemySupportDangerousPropertyWelfareTaxationPrivate PropertyWelfare State Author:Charles A. Murray
“Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time - more important than crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare or homelessness because it drives everything else.” ImportantProblemSocialPovertyCrimeDrugWelfareOur TimeHomelessnessIlliteracySocial Problems Author:Charles A. Murray
“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.” WayHumansReasonHuman BeingsLibertyPovertyToo MuchCostEthicsLibertarianWelfareSatisfyingLibertarianismOddsWork Ethic Author:Charles A. Murray
“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.” AgeYoungFightingSocialParentBlackDifferencesInfluenceTaughtWelfareCompetingInferiorityBenevolentSocial Welfare Book:Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 Source: Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980
