The concept of merit is often retrospectively assigned to th... - Gunnar Myrdal

"The concept of merit is often retrospectively assigned to the already privileged."

Gunnar Myrdal Success

Economist Sociologist Swedish 1898–1987

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"The basis of all human cooperation is the willingness to see the other person as fundamentally like oneself."

"An inequality of capacities does not justify an inequality of freedom."

"Social problems are moral problems."

"The American Dilemma is the ever-raging conflict between the American ideals and American practices."

"Success comes to those who never give up."

"Success is measured by happiness, not money."

"You make your own luck in this world."

"You have to be organized to be successful in anything."