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Top 20 Gunnar Myrdal Quotes (2024 Update)

Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.”

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy.”

2. “Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Education has in America’s whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.”

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”

5. “People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.”

6. “Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Cultural influences have set up the assumptions about the mind, the body, and the universe with which we begin; pose the questions we ask; influence the facts we seek; determine the interpretation we give these facts; and direct our reaction to these interpretations and conclusions.”

7. “Cultural influences have set up the assumptions about the mind, the body, and the universe with which we begin; pose the questions we ask; influence the facts we seek; determine the interpretation we give these facts; and direct our reaction to these interpretations and conclusions.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.”

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.”

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.”

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.”

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

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

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

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

— Gunnar Myrdal

Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.”

19. “There is apparently nowhere a workable majority in the representative assemblies for making the specific cuts in expenditure which could bring down the taxes, and in election after election the people vote into power representatives who are as unable as they are unwilling to do anything about it.”

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Gunnar Myrdal Quote: “As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.”

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

— Gunnar Myrdal

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