Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.
MARGARET MEADMotherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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I think rigid heterosexuality is a perversion of nature.
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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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Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.
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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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Today’s children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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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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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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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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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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