Quotes About Illegitimacy

#1. America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. 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.

Charles A. Murray

#3. Once people came to believe that families should nurture children rather than exploit their labor, many began to feel that the legal consequences of illegitimacy for children were inhumane.

Stephanie Coontz

#4. The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution.

Byron White

#5. (F)or 50 years, the well-meaning leftist agenda has been able to do to blacks what Jim Crow and harsh discrimination could never have done: family breakdown, illegitimacy and low academic achievement.

Walter E. Williams

#6. The present illegitimacy ratio is not only unprecedented in the past two centuries; it is unprecedented, so far as we know, in American history going back to colonial times, and in English history from Tudor times.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

#7. Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Dan Quayle

#8. One of the most radical and revolutionary things you can do is grow your own food and eat from the land.

Bryant McGill

#9. When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.

Helen Yglesias

#10. One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man .

Maxim Gorky

#11. Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Frederick Douglass

#12. I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

Jason Silva

#13. I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like ... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Mac Miller

#14. A 'GQ' award is kind of, like, insane. It's a huge thing.

Mark Ronson

#15. Few things are as bad as a guilty conscience.

Buchi Emecheta

#16. We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

John Grisham

#17. He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

Samuel Foote

#18. Travelers must be content.

William Shakespeare