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.
MARGARET MEADWe end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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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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Women want mediocre men, and men are working to be as mediocre as possible.
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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
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If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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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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We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates her every step towards success as having been damaging.
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We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
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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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Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.
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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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