Gunnar Myrdal Famous Quotes



"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."


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"The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Why is it that we will laugh at a man in a clown outfit, but we won't laugh at a man just walking down the street carrying a clown outfit in one of those plastic dry-cleaner bags"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Evelyn Underhill

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
Seneca

Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is like vitamins we supplement each other's minimum daily requirements.
Kathy Mohnke

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
Mother Theresa

What power has love but forgiveness In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise
William Carlos Williams

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.
William O Douglas

"The reliance on property is...the want of self-reliance. Men measure the esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each is. But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property...(Essays)"
Ralph Waldo Emerson