Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.
MARGARET MEADNever depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
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There is no greater power in the world than the zest of a postmenopausal woman.
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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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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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we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
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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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No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
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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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If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
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No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population – especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings – can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.
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It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary. to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
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Throughout history, females have picked providers for males. Males pick anything.
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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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[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.
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Humanity lies in man’s capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.
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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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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
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You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
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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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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night.
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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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I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
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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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What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.
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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 people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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