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“There, but for the grace of God, or the accident of birth, or the mystery of fate, go I.”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
“Corren tiempos peligrosos para la democracia. Puede apreciarse dicha amenaza en el crecimiento de la xenofobia y del apoyo popular a figuras autocráticas que ponen a prueba los límites de las normas democráticas. Estas tendencias son preocupantes ya de por sí, pero igual de alarmante es el hecho de que los partidos y los políticos tradicionales comprendan tan poco y tan mal el descontento que está agitando las aguas de la política en todo el mundo.”
― La tiranía del mérito
― La tiranía del mérito
“But differences of talent are as morally arbitrary as differences of class.23”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
“If I am responsible for having accrued a handsome share of worldly goods—income and wealth, power and prestige—I must deserve them. Success is a sign of virtue. My affluence is my due.”
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
― The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?
“Unless we define happiness in a rather sad way, namely that it is to be like everyone else, which is what the autonomous ego could be resolved into - nobody, it must be said, knows what it is.”
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