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.
MARGARET MEADWe grow up never questioning that which is unquestioned around us.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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Women have an important contribution to make.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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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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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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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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It was not until we saw the picture of the earth, from the moon, that we realized how small and how helpless this planet is – something that we must hold in our arms and care for.
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We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.
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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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When a person is born we rejoice, and when they’re married we jubilate, but when they die we try to pretend nothing has happened.
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Of course we need children! Adults need children in their lives to listen to and care for, to keep their imagination fresh and their hearts young and to make the future a reality for which they are willing to work.
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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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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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