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.
MARGARET MEADOne of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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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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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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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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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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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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I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don’t agree with or like.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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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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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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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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We need every human gift and cannot afford to neglect any gift because of artificial barriers of sex or race or class or national origin.
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It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.
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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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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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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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