To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
MARGARET MEADOnce any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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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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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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In Bali life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one’s own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
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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.
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I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
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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 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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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
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Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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