Gunnar Myrdal Quotes

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

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

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

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

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

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.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

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

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

It is natural for the ordinary American when he sees something wrong to feel not only that there should be a law against it but, also that an organization should be formed to combat it.

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.

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time.