in all cultures, human beings – in order to be human – must understand the nonhuman.
MARGARET MEADThroughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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.
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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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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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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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Don’t depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that’s what makes the difference.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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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.
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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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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.
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Between friends there is no bribery. The relationship of friends is intrinsically fair and equal. Neither feels stronger or more clever or more beautiful than the other.
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No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe that violence in the end is rewarded.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Contentment can be bought at a price that one can not possibly pay.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
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Women have an important contribution to make.
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom “take” is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
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I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
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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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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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