Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
MARGARET MEADWhat 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.
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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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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
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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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Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly.
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We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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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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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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In almost any society I think, the quality of the nonconformists is likely to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
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The negative cautions of science are never popular.
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Through a grandmother’s voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
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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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Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we’ve put it in an impossible situation.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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