I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
MARGARET MEADNo 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn’t burn up any fossil fuel, doesn’t pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
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Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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We grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples – faraway peoples – so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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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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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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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