Quotes Tagged With :meritocracy

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul....

It is the curse of the competent―not to be called upon.

The first commendment of hte post 1970s meritocracy can be sumed up as follows: "Thou shall provide equality....

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal (...). There is a tendency (...) for certain....

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that....

If someone's deeds lower his position, his pedigree cannot elevate it.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed....

Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my....

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class....

People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media....