Marilyn Ferguson Quotes
In the most important areas, as individuals and countries, we don't change our behavior until we have our backs to the wall.
Ferguson, Marilyn. The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s. J. P. Tarcher, 1980.
The problem of African Poverty as revealed by the media has had a strong emotional effect on many, especially the images of sick and undernourished children. This quotation and {583200} are good examples of sophisticated observers calling for anything to be done even though there was doubt that it would actually help reduce the problem. Specific efforts to reduce poverty in third world nations have been unfortunately not very successful. Many have called for continual and even greatly increased efforts despite the fact that success was doubtful. A few critics objected to the waste of resources and called for radical new approaches to foreign aid.
This is similar to proverbs in many other cultures.
Marilyn Ferguson was an American author, editor and public speaker known for her 1980 book The Aquarian Conspiracy which is connected with the New Age Movement.
