Agree Quote by Aristotle

Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but…

— Chris Hayes

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Assuredly men of merit are never lacking at any time, for those are the men who manage affairs, and it is affairs that produce…

— Catherine the Great

“Man's merit lieth in service and virtue and not in the pageantry of wealth and riches.”

— Bahá'u'lláh

That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids,…

— Ross Douthat

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for…

— Krystal Ball

“Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages,…

— Shamus Rahman Khan

The rich feel full of merit.

— Mason Cooley

For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy. The only real difference was that republicans thought…

— Krystal Ball

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

— Thomas Piketty

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

— George Bernard Shaw

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke