The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
MARGARET MEADYoung people are moving away from feeling guilty about sleeping with somebody to feeling guilty if they are *not* sleeping with someone.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
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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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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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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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A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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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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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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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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