Meritocracy Quote by Edward Luce

“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy. The children of the rich are overwhelmingly likely to stay rich.”

— Edward Luce

What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

I had been pretty well made a prisoner by school, by society. I had been given this description of the world that I couldn't…

— Frederick Lenz

As class barriers tumbled and Britain became a more meritocratic society, young, well-educated Scots were best placed to exploit the new social mobility.

— Andrew Neil

“Economic growth is quite simply incapable of satisfying this democratic and meritocratic hope, which must create specific institutions for the purpose and not rely…

— Thomas Piketty

“If people don’t follow the agreed-upon paths, they don’t have the right to complain about either the people they disagree with or the idea-meritocratic…

— Ray Dalio

Britain's great postwar meritocratic experiment was broad-based, but it was in politics that the change was most dramatic.

— Andrew Neil

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

— Ray Dalio

“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in a society…

— Thomas Piketty

“Uniting the many challenges to the commercial meritocratic ideal is a threefold plea, that we cease investing with moral connotations something as apparently haphazardly…

— Alain de Botton

I don't believe in creating dynastic wealth. I don't really believe that in a society that aspires to be meritocratic and that believes in…

— Bill Gates

“In the United States, France, and most other countries, talk about the virtues of the national meritocratic model is seldom based on close examination…

— Thomas Piketty