MERITOCRACY AND THE POPULIST WORLD
J C MEEROFF MD, PhD and S. MEEROFF BA
South Florida Institute of Integrative Medicine, USA
“If a man who has not been a socialist before 25 has no heart. If he remains one after 25 he has no head". King Oscar II of Sweden
"Misfortune is the test of a person's merit”. Seneca the younger
“Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit”. PJ O’Rourke
“Meritocracy is a good thing. Whenever possibly, people
should be judged based on their work and results, not superficial qualities.”
Eric Reis
"It is the practice of all tyrants to rely on a natural
but thoughtless feeling of the peoples, to dominate them". Domingo
Faustino Sarmiento