Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
MARGARET MEADNo matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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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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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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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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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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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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