Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Character

Consistency

Order

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

America

Hero

Leader

America is conservative in fundamental principles… but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

America

Fundamentals

Principles

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Common

Destiny

Events

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Divorce

Finland

Foxes

Education has in America’s whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

America

Education

Individual

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

Fields

Groups

Political

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.

America

Circles

Ideas

In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a “free” economy.

Country

Degrees

United States

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

Battle

Development

Long

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Quotes by Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

America is conservative in fundamental principles… but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Education has in America’s whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.

In most circles, the idea of economic planning has been in disrepute most of the time and, particularly in America, has almost carried connotations of intellectual and moral perversion and even political subversion.

In the United States, and to only slightly lesser degree in all the other rich and economically progressive Western countries, public debate has at all times been dominated by the adherents of a “free” economy.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

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