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.
MARGARET MEADThe ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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The assumption that men were created equal, with an equal ability to make an effort and win an earthly reward, although denied every day by experience, is maintained every day by our folklore and our daydreams.
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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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We must have a place where children can have a whole group of adults they can trust.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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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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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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