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.
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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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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The anonymity of the city is one of its strengths as well as – carried too far – one of its weaknesses.
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It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.
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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover’s insecurity.
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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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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Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
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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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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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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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Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.
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Blackberry winter, the time when the hoarforst lies on the blackberry blossoms; without this frost the berries will not set. It is the forerunner of a rich harvest.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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I had my father’s mind, but he had his mother’s mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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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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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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