Gunnar Myrdal quotes - page 2

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water. (Gunnar Myrdal)
Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy. View quote
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America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical. View quote
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It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism. View quote
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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. View quote
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Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision. View quote
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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. View quote
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The treatment of the Negro is America's greatest and most conspicuous scandal. View quote
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Quantities defined in terms of measurements made at the end of the period in question are referred to as ex post; quantities defined in terms of action planned at the beginning of the period in question are referred to as . View quote
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In society, liberty for one may mean the suppression of liberty for others. View quote
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The term 'economic planning' and perhaps still more bluntly 'planned economy' contains a tautology... The word 'economy' by itself implies, of course, a co-ordination of activities, directed towards a purpose. It implies a subject, a will, a plan, and a rational adaptation of means towards an end or or a goal. To add "planned” in order to indicate that this co. (Gunnar Myrdal)