67 Quotes About Meritocracy

Even a doctor has to go through almost a decade of rigorous training to take care of people's health, and as for a politician who is to take care of the very lives of the people, there is no training! What kind of a deplorable stupidity is this? And we glorify this stupidity with the title of democracy.

We cannot create a truly democratic society till we create a stateless society.

If an immigrant's daughter can become the vice-president of our United States, then the day is not far that even an immigrant can become the president - of course it'll require further amendments to the constitution, but that day our sweet land of liberty will truly be an advanced nation on earth.

Capitalism is not evil per se. It is the particular implementation that is evil – the one designed to cater for a small super rich elite who call all of the shots and create global empires outwith the control of the State and the people. This model of capitalism is not a servant of the people, but a Dictatorship of Mammon. The world can be free only when the controllers are removed from power. Only one policy guarantees the end of the super rich – 100% inheritance tax.

You're lucky you chose Houston. It's a true meritocracy here. I'm from Dallas, which is more closed. Houston is wide open. Here, you work hard, you succeed. It doesn't matter who your parents or grandparents were. Nearly all doors are open. If one isn't, you build your own door and march right through it.

The average Harvard freshman in 1952 would have placed in the bottom 10 percent of the incoming class by 1960.

Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment

One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.

Vampires support meritocratic values. Screw democracy! It has been sucked dry of any worth it once had.