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We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience. Gary L. Francione
Entertainment Animals Defense Our Pleasure Wear Eat Only Purposes Convenience Use Uses Need Amusement
There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings. Gary L. Francione
Death Suffering Result Made Animals Other Fur Distinction Moral Between Also Leather Materials Which Sentient Beings
We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals. Gary L. Francione
Obligations Animals Think Our Moral About Clearly
So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding. Geoff Mulgan
Future Time Chasing Picture Mouth Live Society Back Crises Minor Civil Rarely Civil Society New Look Most Juggling Perpetual Hand Contracts Get After Bigger Bigger Picture Short-Term Much Organisations Stand Many Even Prepared Treadmill Funding
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways. Geoff Mulgan
Creative Reality Sometimes Internet Virtual Virtual Reality Ways Dividing Clear Advances Between Becomes Line Very Blurred Notion Creative Ways Things
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. Geoff Mulgan
Today Justice Learning Innovation World Problems Society Despite Distance Pressing Some Tackling Facing Over Fair Most Fair Trade Because Housing Trade Reduction Governments Urban Social Farming Help Growing Waste
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous. Geoff Mulgan
World Healthy Live Too Everyone Would Hated Entirely Taken Poisonous Soon Becomes Self-Love Where Want Dose Modest Far Themselves Who
Capitalism is not so much an aberration as a step on an evolutionary path, and one that contains within it some of the answers to its own contradictions. Geoff Mulgan
Capitalism Path Own Evolutionary Aberration Some Step Contains Within Answers Contradictions Much
Governments that invest billions in new hardware still find it hard to accept that they might benefit just as much from systematic innovation in such things as child development or cutting crime. Geoff Mulgan
Innovation Crime Benefit Systematic Find Invest Development New Accept Still Governments Child Just Just As Much Might Cutting Much Hard Such Things Billions Things Hardware
Lots of creativity is and should be solitary. Geoff Mulgan
Creativity Solitary Lots Should
Many of the greatest composers and musicians do their best work in extreme confinement but we are seeing it in other fields - uses of technology to link people together in networks to solve problems and almost certainly we'll get better ideas than we would from them just doing it on their own. Geoff Mulgan
Work Best Technology Musicians Together People Better Problems Own Other Extreme Would Solve Best Work Composers Seeing Networks Almost Ideas Greatest Doing Link Than Get Just Confinement Fields Them Certainly Uses Many
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in technology start-ups, just as the U.K. government has never matched the vast investment made by the U.S. government. Geoff Mulgan
Government Technology Made Understanding Valley City London Silicon Vast Never Investment Knowledgeable Known Matched Tradition Been Just
There is a yearning for people to return to elementary moral virtues, such as integrity and commitment. We distrust people who have no centering of values. We greatly respect businessmen, for example, if they display those virtues, even if we don't necessarily agree with the people. Geoff Mulgan
Respect Integrity Commitment People Values Example Virtues Those Moral Distrust For Example Return Yearning Greatly Who Businessmen Agree Display Even Elementary Necessarily
A tablet replacing an exercise book is not innovation, it's just a different way to make notes. Geoff Mulgan
Book Innovation Way Tablet Make Exercise Replacing Just Different Notes Different Way
The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan
Politics Religion Business Society Entrepreneurship Idea Does Arts Much
The market turns out to be just one special case of collective decision-making. Geoff Mulgan
Collective Market Out Case Just Just One Decision-Making Turns Special
Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy. Geoff Mulgan
Recycling Collar Jobs Sexy Cost Area Could Very Green Where Low Low-Cost Created Workers
I can think of nothing worse than a think-tank where everybody agreed. Geoff Mulgan
Nothing Think Everybody Worse Than Where Agreed
I didn't much like being in Parliament physically. I found it a bit depressing. It's very dark and heavy. I like being out and about. Geoff Mulgan
Dark Bit Out About Physically Parliament Like Very Being Heavy Depressing Much Found
States which used to communicate directly to their citizens now do so through the media, where their messages are reshaped by the logics of news values and commentary. Geoff Mulgan
News Communicate Values States Citizens Directly Through Messages Commentary Where Which Used Media Now
Predation is part of the everyday life of capitalism, in sectors as mainstream as pharmaceuticals, software and oil - where people's money, their data, their time and their attention are routinely taken in fundamentally asymmetrical exchanges. Geoff Mulgan
Life Time Capitalism People Money Everyday Life Everyday Software Sectors Data Exchanges Part Taken Attention Mainstream Oil Where Fundamentally
Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks. Geoff Mulgan
People Extraordinary Range Complex Beasts Economies Tasks Need
There are hardly any apprenticeships in care; hardly any schools preparing teenagers for jobs in care; and few signs that politicians know what to do to raise the status and rewards for what will soon be one of our most important industries. Geoff Mulgan
Care Will Signs Important Few Politicians Teenagers Our Jobs Status Soon Know Most Schools Industries Any Rewards Preparing Hardly Raise
Immigration isn't always good for the economy or jobs. Geoff Mulgan
Good Immigration Jobs Economy Always
Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more. Geoff Mulgan
Rich Society Our Says Out Drifted More Get Anyone Apathy Should Who Britain Fatalism
Radicalism is as British as tea and cakes, as much a part of our make-up as monarchy and football. It will never have its own jubilees, palaces or honours system. Geoff Mulgan
Will Own Tea Our Honours System Never Football Part Cakes Much Monarchy Palaces British
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