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“The correct rate of speed in innovating changes in long-standing social customs has not yet been determined by even the most expert of the experts. Personally I am beginning to think there is more danger in lagging than in speeding up cultural change to keep pace with mechanical change.”

Thinking Long Social Change Danger Standing Rate Determined Speed Experts Customs Pace Speeding Cultural Change Speeding Up

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.”

Ifs Social Security Rate Saving Depressing Social Security Savings

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“By default, we have created a "system" of nursing-home care for the aged in which middle-class people pay exorbitant rates to for-profit nursing-home entrepreneurs - and then when private resources are consumed and the patient qualifies as a pauper, the nursing home begins billing Medicaid. This is precisely the antithesis of social citizenship; instead of the poor being accorded the dignity associated with the middle class, equality of treatment is achieved by making the middle class undergo pauperization.”

“We admire predators - panthers, lions, tigers, even wolves. Maybe to be naturally thoughtful and hesitant to use violence is to be somehow second rate. To be in the middle of the social food chain. Especially if you're a man. This society thinks real men are violent.”

Ifs Thinking Men Real Use Social Violence Middle Rate Violent Admire Chains Thoughtful Lions Tigers Predator Real Men This Society Second Rate Food Chain Hesitant Panthers

Book:The Longings of Women: A Novel

Source: The Longings of Women: A Novel

“Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.”

World Humans Moments Form Social Numbers Records Photography Cameras Rate Available Disappear Destroyed Landscape Devices That Moment Social Life Rate Of Change

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help.”

Helping Social Economic Needed Capitalism Rate Imperialism Advancement Alarms Attainment Secured Surplus Social Systems Mobilization

Book:Political Econ of Growth

Source: Political Econ of Growth