More from Margaret Mead
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead
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