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

- Gunnar Myrdal

Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be foun…

- Gunnar Myrdal

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

- Gunnar Myrdal

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery alm…

- Gunnar Myrdal

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

- Gunnar Myrdal

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

- Gunnar Myrdal

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…

- Gunnar Myrdal

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

- Gunnar Myrdal

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

- Gunnar Myrdal