I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
MARGARET MEADThe solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.
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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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What the world needs is not romantic lovers who are sufficient unto themselves, but husbands and wives who live in communities, relate to other people, carry on useful work and willingly give time and attention to their children.
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The need to find meaning is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Young people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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