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Gunnar Myrdal has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest…
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Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.
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It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.
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America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…
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The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium…
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All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural…
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So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.
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In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost…
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In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate…
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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
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Privileged groups, like everyone else, want to think well of themselves and to believe that they are acting generously and justly.
— Joanna Russ
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I want to be president because I have the sensitivity, as a woman, to listen. I'm a different candidate... different because I…
— Josefina Vazquez Mota
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Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be…
— Gunnar Myrdal
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It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its…
— David Riesman
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For me, true and authentic democracy occurs when the privileged groups assist the unprivileged groups to become more privileged.
— Stephane Hessel
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