Quote #6

'Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.'

More from George Gilder

  1. 'My kids aren't learning Spanish. They're learning C++.'
  2. 'Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, ou…
  3. 'In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.'
  4. 'Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differ…
  5. 'Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consumma…
  6. 'The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.'
  7. 'A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the ea…
  8. 'The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.'

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