Nepotism Quotes

“Ever help a talent to grow,

Don't corner him, never, No!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Political donations are a form of nepotism.”
― Steven Magee

“Institutional nepotism might be tolerated in prosperous times. Setbacks can become crises, however, when there is incompetence in key positions at crucial moments.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Like many things at Facebook, it didn't matter what the policy team debated or decided; it mattered what Sheryl thought. In this case she had run into one of her Harvard friends, a surgical director of liver transplantation, at a Harvard reunion and offered to help him source donors.”
― Sarah Wynn-Williams, Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

“În L.A., cineva pe jumătate la fel de important ca Elgie ar avea două secretare, iar secretarele ar avea, la rândul lor, secretare și tot așa, până când toate odraslele strălucite ale oamenilor cu influență ar fi pe statul de plată”.”
― Maria Semple, Where'd You Go, Bernadette

“দাও বিকশিত হতে মেধাবীকে,

করো না কক্ষনো কোণঠাসা তাকে!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“Privileged did not
mean special; just fortunate. And fortunes could change in a flash”
― Kavita Kané, Sita's Sister

“Weak political leadership benefits the rich as it maintains the status quo and all its inequities.”
― Stewart Stafford

“In the context of male provisioning and multigeneration resource transfers (both pre-existing features of the human adaptive complex), wealth accumulation becomes especially significant for men as an extended form of parental and/or nepotistic effort. For this reason, selection on behaviors favoring the acquisition of prestige and wealth through technical skills must have been significantly stronger in men than in women.”
― Marco del Giudice, Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“Nepotism made it extremely difficult to function as a manager in certain high altitude observatories.”
― Steven Magee

“I found that high altitude astronomy was riddled with nepotism.”
― Steven Magee

“Nepotism is alive and well in the Republican Party.”
― Steven Magee

“Worst is the man who has all the good advice
And then because his nerve fails, fails to act
In accordance with it, as a leader should.
And equally to blame
Is anyone who puts the personal
Above the overall thing, puts friend
Or family first.”
― Seamus Heaney, The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone

“Some situations are a case of the blind leading the deaf.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“PROVEN BIAS HAS COME TO BE THE VIRTUE OF A LEADER.

Bias has become the first qualification to join a party, and extreme bias the virtue to become a leader.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Humans are born inside a game, and not everyone starts at Zero.

There is only one difference between Humans and Animals.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Slippery as was Knox's land grab of the entire Waldo Patent, nepotism and patronage were common in those days.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

“godfatherism can’t win constantly... instead, it destroys and tear down what one is supposed to uphold”
― Omotoso Omotayo Olawande

“What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Welcome to the anti-meritocratic world, this world. What are you going to do about it? Will you stand back and watch while cronyism, nepotism, the old school tie, the private club, the right university, the right accent, the right background, the right secret society, the right religion, the right family, destroy merit so that their chosen ones can prosper at your expense. It’s time to smash the conspiracy. Break up all the mechanisms that allow privileged groups within society to rig the system in their favour and penalise anyone who doesn’t belong to their insidious cliques.”
― Michael Faust, The Meritocracy Party

“The best jobs in town are reserved for the politician’s distant cousins.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Before You Doubt Yourself: Pep Talks and other Crucial Discussions

“It's pull (that) counts most, then money;
Doctors and drivers get whatever they please;
Train attendants and shop assistants have their perks,
and its useful to have parents overseas.”
― Zhang Xinxin, Chinese Profiles

“TO BUY FISH IN THE DREAM, IS TO SELL NEPOTISM”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Nepotism is like termite, to the pillars of meritocracy.”
― Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma, Modified Leadership

“The Trifecta Plot by Stewart Stafford

Break moneyed bread,
and a morsel of food,
is now a parcel of land.

Entreat in obsequious sell,
and the jewel of their loins,
is wed of beauteous hand.

Purloin the coffers golden,
and a cutpurse rules as king,
with no forswearing planned.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Leftist dictator's kin-selective self-interest supersedes egalitarian ideology.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“Favoritism is a civilized faculty,
when practiced beyond blood and border.
Problem is when you see nothing at all,
beyond the rim of your family and culture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect

“У 1958 році американський політолог Едвард Бенфілд сформулював впливову теорію, відповідно до якої низький рівень економічного розвитку в цьому регіоні пов’язаний з міцними родинними зв’язками. За його словами, такі зв’язки зменшують довіру до членів інших родів і негативно впливають на співпрацю заради спільної мети, що знижує рівень економічного розвитку в регіоні.”
― Oded Galor, The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

“Everybody is against nepotism until it is their turn.”
― Shon Mehta, The Uncharted Mind

“It is one of the defining features of any bureaucracy that those who staff it are selected by formal, impersonal criteria. Most often, some kind of test. That is, bureaucrats are not, say, elected like politicians. But neither should they get the job just because they are someone's cousin.

In theory, they are meritocracies. In fact, everyone knows that the system is compromised in a thousand different ways. Many of the staff are, in fact, there just because they are someone's cousin. And everybody knows it.”
― David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy