Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
MARGARET MEADPrayer 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
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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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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 may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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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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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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Warfare is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
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Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
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Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.
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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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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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