People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to… — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
