Quote #8

'Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.'

More from George Gilder

  1. 'Surely women's liberation is a most unpromising panacea. But the movement is working politically, because our sexuality is so confused, ou…
  2. 'The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.'
  3. 'Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.'
  4. 'The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.'
  5. 'My kids aren't learning Spanish. They're learning C++.'
  6. 'The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his ch…
  7. 'In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.'
  8. 'This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.'

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