Margaret Mead on culture
Margaret Mead145 quotes“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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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead A small group of thoughtful people could change the world.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead The atmosphere is the key symbol of global interdependence.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead 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.
Margaret MeadMargaret Mead
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Adi DaAdi Da Never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life.
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