Elinor Hurst

“How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?”
― Abraham Maslow

“The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

“The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History Of Progress

“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.”
― A.S.J. Tessimond, Collected Poems: with Translations from Jacques Prévert