A biography for George Gilderhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“The first priority of any serious program against poverty is to strengthen the male role in poor families.”
“The risk-bearing role of the rich cannot be performed so well by anyone else. The benefits of capitalism still depend on capitalists. The other groups on the pyramid of wealth should occasionally turn from the spectacles of consumption long enough to see the adventure on the frontiers of the economy above them - an adventure not without its note of nobility...”
“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 children sense it.”
“Intelligent design itself does not have any content.”
“The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.”
“Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.”
“In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.”
“This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.”