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Social Science Quotes

You must change the whole pattern at once

There are too many complaints about society having to move too fast to keep up with the machine. There is great advantage in moving fast if you move completely, if social, educational, and recreational changes keep pace. You must change the whole pattern at once and the whole group together — and the people themselves must decide to move.

Margaret Mead, 4 September 1954, Time Magazine
Illustration of Margaret Mead. She is a white American woman with grey hair. She is smiling, and wears glasses. She stands before a wood panel. Quote at the top is about compliants of society moving too fast

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