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Any attempt to redress the inequities and injustices that plague our society has to start with the reality that we will never live in…

— Dawn Foster

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

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

— Edward Luce

“The meritocratic society has given way to a hereditary meritocracy.”

— Edward Luce

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

Meritocracy has nothing to do with who gets in. It's more who you are and where you come from and where you are employed.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

“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

I don't think the world works on merit.

— Charles de Lint

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

— Bahá'u'lláh

“This is not a meritocracy.”

— Sallie Tisdale

“The highborn talk about merit, bettering yourself, democracy, but it’s all crap. A rich man’s got a vote allocation of a thousand, and Aba’s…

— Julian North