Quotes About Meritocracy

Meritocracy" is an old anti-concept and one of the most contemptible package-deals. By means of nothing more than its last five letters, that word obliterates the difference between mind and force: it equates the men of ability with political rulers, and the power of their creative achievements with political power.

When you get rid of the estate tax," he (Warren Buffet) said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.

When you get rid of the estate tax," he said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.

No society can be simultaneously fair, free, and equal. If it is fair, people who work harder can accumulate more. If it is free, people will give their wealth to their children. But then it cannot be equal, for some people will inherit wealth they did not earn.

that children or adults possess any general aversion to inequality." People are content with economic inequality as long as they feel that the country is meritocratic, and they get angry when they feel it isn't.

A diverse elite may be good in its own right, as a matter of justice and representation. But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism.

England need players who are hungry - not guys who think they should be there because of who they are and what they have done previously.

If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

That is what we should be doing: liberating everyone's potential, whether it's a self-made individual, whether it's someone taking the university route, whether it's the apprenticeship route. They are all equal and good and worthwhile.

It is my express wish that in awarding the prizes no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties .

War is never a meritocracy for the casualties. Shane's

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

We need to start evaluating people based on their abilities and not on their sex or other congenital characteristics.

Men would be chosen for jobs on account of fitness to do the work, not because they flattered the irrational dogmas of those in power.

For decades now, Republicans and Democrats have shared the same mythology around the great American meritocracy. The only real difference was that republicans thought the American meritocracy was already perfect and Democrats believed it could be perfected if we just dealt with racism and sexism and other forms of bigotry.

I believe this country was built on a simple promise: that each of us deserves a fair shot.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

Innovation and meritocracy was what America was based on.

Our belief is that aspirations, meritocracy, and a world class institution are the three ingredients our country needs.