WE MUST DEVISE A SYSTEM IN WHICH PEACE IS MORE REWARDING THAN WAR.
MARGARET MEADOne of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
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The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one’s mind.
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We – mankind – stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device – our consciousness of the crisis – as our unique contribution.
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The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.
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And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.
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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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There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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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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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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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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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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The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time for maturing of sexual feeling. A man who fails to satisfy a woman is looked upon as a clumsy, inept blunderer.
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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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The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
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Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
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Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.
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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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We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a life-style that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
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The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.
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Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
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If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
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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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You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don’t like.
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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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