We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
MARGARET MEADOf 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.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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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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Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
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Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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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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The assumption that men and woman are essentially alike in all respects, or even in the most important ones, is a damaging one, as damaging as the assumption that they are different in ways in which they aren’t different, perhaps more so.
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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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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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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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One characteristic of Americans is that they have no toleration at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.
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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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We have nowhere else to go, this is all we have.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.
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We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.
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Even though the ship may go down, the journey goes on.
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Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
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Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
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An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
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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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There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children… with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women.
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No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
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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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