"So many social changes are as irreversible as……" — Gunnar Myrdal

"So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water."

20 Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

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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…
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed…
It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.
Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and…
America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power,…
The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies…
All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as…
In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America,…
In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries,…
It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.
Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally… — Hannah Arendt
I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe… — Chinua Achebe
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which… — Margaret Atwood
Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you… — Margaret Atwood
London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's… — David Bailey
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our… — James A. Baldwin
I'm a Buddhist, so one of my biggest beliefs is, 'Everything changes, don't take it personally.' — Alan Ball
Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world. — Antonio Banderas
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective… — Albert Bandura
I would like, before I die, to see the changes I've always fought for being made. If not, my life… — Brigitte Bardot
But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures,… — Travis Barker

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