Gunnar Myrdal - Quotes By Gunnar Myrdal

Quotes By Gunnar Myrdal

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

"Education means an assimilation of white American culture. It decreases the dissimilarity of the Negroes from other Americans."

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

“In a time of deepening crisis in the underdeveloped world, of social malaise in the affluent societies . . it seems likely that Gandhi's ideas and techniques will become increasingly relevant.”

"The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture."

"White prejudice and discrimination keep the Negro low in standards of living, health, education, manners and morals. This, in its turn, gives support to white prejudice. White prejudice and Negro standards thus mutually ‘cause’ each other." (An American Dilemma)

"Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces." (Beyond the Welfare State)

“It is in the agricultural sector that the battle for long-term economic development will be won or lost.”